Camille Léger (Fleur Geoffrey) is an awkward person. Due to training from her father as a child, Camille was unable to tolerate the smell or taste of alcohol and reacted violently to it. She also can’t tolerate much food. She hasn’t spoken to her father in years, since her mother cut off all contact when she was young. She does have fond memories of her childhood, but they are overshadowed by the fame and influence of Léger (Stanley Webb).
Tomine Issei (Tomohisa Yamashita) is an awkward person. Born into a family of diamond brokers, he was under constant pressure to leave the brewing industry and take over the family business. His mother and grandfather used all means to keep him out of the race for their mentor’s inheritance.
The two traveled between France and Japan God’s drops A very dramatic TV series. So heavy, aside from the golden retriever-like Shizuku Kanzaki and the now heartbroken and traumatized Camille Léger, and the mild-mannered, confident Issei Tomine who is stiff and restless, the biggest difference between the manga and the TV series is the way drinking is presented. In comics, drinking is fun even if you don’t know much about it. Especially in the beginning of the comic, we’re repeatedly told that drinking with friends is the best thing to do – wine doesn’t have to be expensive or rare to be worth drinking. In this TV series, alcohol is a very serious matter, and novices are welcome.
Camille’s training as a child was the same as Shizuku’s, giving her an edge over the competition. She may not know the wines, but she does know the flavors, aromas and terroir. Most importantly, she knew her father. This last point becomes important in the climactic, final test when both Camille and Issei stop caring about the stupid estate.
Another key difference between the two iterations is the introduction of Alexandre Léger’s best friend Luca, who helps Camille until she rebels against him and his agenda. Then he becomes a sworn enemy, just like the wine critic Shizuku and his company are at war with the wine critic. Drops of God: MarriageVolumes 4-5.
If you like this manga, I would cautiously recommend this series. It spends a lot of time describing the trauma in Camille and Issei’s lives. Ise’s mother Honoka (Watanabe Makiko), where in the manga she was a respected wine expert and optimistic about whether Issei was Kanzaki’s illegitimate child, here she’s a cold and angry woman forced to seek revenge on Léger and his children for leaving her. Until the very end of the story, the enjoyment of wine is rarely touched upon in this series.
In one important scene that shifts the energy of the entire series, Issei prepares dinner for the assembled parties (after catching the fish by hand!) in the vineyard, where the final third of the test takes place. Everyone was happy to be away from the intense competition for a while. Issei comments that this is what he always imagined a French dinner to be like – everyone drinking and eating, talking, touching, and laughing at the same time. Finally, he and we get a glimpse into his soul. God’s drops comics.
From this point on, the story changes, with Camille and Issei becoming allies and the siblings uniting to fight Alexander and Luca and their insane trials. In a climax that feels both forced and entirely in keeping with Alexandre Léger’s usual self-absorbed bastard character, it turns out that only one winner is possible. As much as we’ve always hated Alexander and his stupid loyalty tests, by the end, we hate the damn guy. The same goes for Camille and Issei. Thankfully, their journey has taken them away from all that. The last few minutes of the series were filled with joy and made me wish the sequel could be the same.
The gap between comics is already big enough Drop of God and TV series, it’s hard to compare and not compare them at the same time. I started to worry that the relationship between Issei and Camille might be the focus of the story, and to some extent that’s true, but it was never a romantic relationship. Phew. Instead, they got their romance and they both lived happily ever after.
The acting is outstanding. Both characters are so cringe-worthy and miserable at first, it’s painful to watch, but by the end, you realize you almost miraculously like them…even if you know nothing about wine.
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In a notable storyline, Camille travels to Italy to discover one of these wines, following a clue left behind by her father. There she learns that her father is worse than she thought, and that there’s a wine a woman and her father make that makes you understand the real world Elizabeth Fradori and her ahref=”https://www.agricolaforadori.com/en/wines/”>Agricola Foradori, a winery focused on sustainability and biodiversity. So that’s really cool.
Also pretty cool is the series’ multilingual script, which switches fluidly between French, English, Japanese, and Italian as the scene demands. The subtitles don’t always rise to the challenge, but since it makes both Camille and Issei feel like outsiders, it’s acceptable.
