Siblings Shin and Yuko Kibayashi — under the pen name Tadashi Agi — launched The Drops of God manga with artist Okimoto in Kodansha’s Morning magazine 2004.
Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Televisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment.
The entertainment news service Variety reported on Monday that Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto’s The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga is inspiring a live-action television series that will be multilingual as a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies.
The French wine magazine La Revue du vin de France has recognized the manga, giving it the magazine’s top award in 2010.