Manga Les Gouttes de Dieu Tome 2 (The Drops of God Vol. 2) By Hervé St-Louis April 15, 2012 - 10:17 Publisher(s): Glénat Originally published by Kodansha Writer(s): Tadashi Agi Penciller(s): Shu Okimoto Inker(s): Shu Okimoto Cover Artist(s): Shu Okimoto ISBN: 9782723463416 (French), 978-1935654292 (English) $15.99 CAD Release Date: June 2008 Now that Shizuku Kanzaki has taken up the challenge of his late father to discover the twelve great wines and compete with his adoptive brother Issei Tomine he has to describe the first of the great wines to and see if he can succeed in claiming his heritage back. But a brutal failure against Tomine is the last of his worries. Sarah, Tomine’s younger sister seems in love with him and an Italian wine freak wants to discredit Shizuku. This book continues the previous intrigues of the Drops of God introduced in the first volume. However, you’ll definitely want to check out the first volume before you read this one as the story and the number of characters can become complicated. What this comic book does well, is describing wines and allowing readers to appreciate wine tasting, even if they can’t really try them while reading about them. It is a challenge to teach a course and mix the story with enough dramatic elements so it doesn’t always get bogged down in minutiae. But so far the mix works well. What I did like in this Les Gouttes de Dieu volume 2 is the open debate represented by a work colleague of Shizuku that French wines may be overrated compared to other wines like those from Italy. If you re-read the first volume, you’ll definitely perceive a preference for French wines, but the antagonist in this book challenges all of that with good arguments. It’s almost as if the manga was giving readers cue cards they could use in a public debate on wines, without having to do much more than read the comic book! The fine lines drawn by Shu Okimoto continue in this volume although I have to say I really like the few caricatures he uses throughout to express characters’ zany expressions. Sometimes it feels funny to see a cartoon and childish version of Shizuku next to a well-rendered illustration. It breaks the flow in a good way, letting readers know that this manga doesn’t have to be all too serious and can make fun of itself too. In my review of volume One, I wrote that Les Gouttes de Dieu were not available in English yet. Well they are. Comic book publisher Vertical Inc has obtained the rights to the series and published the first volume in October 2011, the second in December 2011. The third volume just came out in March 2012. I will say that the English edition covers are not as good-looking as the French ones. Buy Drops of God in English © Copyright 2002-2026 by Toon Doctor Inc. - All rights Reserved. All other texts, images, characters and trademarks are copyright their respective owners. Use of material in this document (including reproduction, modification, distribution, electronic transmission or republication) without prior written permission is strictly prohibited.