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Crunchyroll Streams Drops of God Anime's English Dub on Friday

Crunchyroll announced on Thursday that it will begin streaming an English dub for the television anime of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto's The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga on Friday. The English dub cast — led by voice director Jason Lord, producer Susie Nixon, script adaptation writers Jared Smith and Kieran Flitton, ADR prep Benjamin Tehrani, mixer William Dewell, and engineer Tina Son — include:

• Chris Guerrero as Shizuku
• Taylor Shaye as Miyabi
• Reagan Murdock as Tomine
• Mike Smith as Yutaka
• Christopher Caz as Fujieda
• Maganda Marie as Kiryu
• Brianna Roberts as Maki
• Alex Hanback as Mishima
• Aaron Roberts as Morikubo
• Greg Dulcie as Yoshida

The anime premiered on April 10. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime as it airs in Japan in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and the CIS.

Kenji Itoso (Aquarion: Myth of Emotions, Santa Company) is directing the series at Satelight, in collaboration with YANCHESTER. Yū Mitsuru (Aquarion: Myth of Emotions) is supervising and writing the series scripts, Takehiro Suwa is designing the characters, and Eishi Segawa (Battle Girls - Time Paradox, Ushio & Tora) is composing the music.

The series stars:

• Takuya Satō as Issei Tomine
• Kazuya Kamenashi as Shizuku Kanzaki
• Maaya Uchida as Miyabi Shinohara
• Banjō Ginga as Yutaka Kanzaki
• Lynn as Sara
• Akihiko Ishizumi as Kawarage
• Sōshirō Hori as Chōsuke Honma
• Konomi Kohara as Laurent

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. A live-action series based on the manga aired in Japan in 2009. This first manga series ended in June 2014, and the 44th and final compiled book volume shipped in July 2014. Comixology and Kodansha USA Publishing have released the manga in English digitally.

The series inspired an internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series on Apple TV+ (now known as just Apple TV) in 2023, as well as a second season, which premiered on January 21.

The manga's "final" (at the time) series, titled Marriage: Kami no Shizuku Saishūshō (Drops of God: Mariage), launched in May 2015, and it ended in October 2020. Kodansha USA Publishing is releasing Drops of God: Mariage in English digitally.

The duo then launched the Kami no Shizuku deuxième (Drops of God Second) sequel manga in Kodansha's Morning magazine in September 2023, and ended it in April 2024.

Source: Crunchyroll (Liam Dempsey)