{"id":18794,"date":"2012-12-21T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=18794"},"modified":"2014-05-11T21:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T01:23:04","slug":"the-drops-of-god-new-world-by-tadashi-agi-illustrated-by-shu-okimoto-translated-by-vertical-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-drops-of-god-new-world-by-tadashi-agi-illustrated-by-shu-okimoto-translated-by-vertical-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drops of God: New World by Tadashi Agi, illustrated by Shu Okimoto, translated by Vertical, Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/12\/Drops-of-God-New-World.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26900\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/12\/Drops-of-God-New-World.jpg\" alt=\"Drops of God New World\" width=\"908\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/12\/Drops-of-God-New-World.jpg 908w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/12\/Drops-of-God-New-World-567x800.jpg 567w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/12\/Drops-of-God-New-World-800x1127.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/a>I must confess that I&#8217;ve been loathe to post about this latest volume of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s=%22drops+of+god%22\">The Drops of God<\/a><\/em>\u00a0\u2013 an intoxicating, ongoing race between faux-siblings to identify 13 bottles of phenomenal wines (\u201cThe Twelve Apostles,\u201d plus the eponymous \u201cDrops of God\u201d)\u00a0as chosen by their late legendary wine critic father \u2013\u00a0for utterly selfish reasons. I figured if I took the &#8216;head-in-the-sand&#8217;-denial approach, then this couldn&#8217;t possibly be the last available volume-in-translation in the series<i>,<\/i> right?<\/p>\n<p>The late Yutaka Kanzaki&#8217;s description of his Seventh Apostle ends with an enigmatic reference to &#8220;the eternally to be finished Sagrada Fam\u00edlia,&#8221; the Barcelona church designed by Antoni Gaud\u00ed which remains incomplete more than a century after construction commenced in 1882. The search sends\u00a0adopted-just-before-his-death son Issei Tomine to Napa Valley. His chosen traveling companion is (surprise, surprise) Loulan, his hapa Japanese Uyghur guide and savior (vital to finding Apostle #2) who now apparently seems to be his assistant of sorts. Issei&#8217;s &#8216;brother&#8217; and rival\u00a0Shizuku Kanzaki considers the &#8216;new worlds&#8217; of South America, South Africa, and New Zealand, but eventually flies to the Australian Outback with his usual sidekick Miyabe\u00a0Shinohara.<\/p>\n<p>While discovering and enjoying some of the new world&#8217;s best wine offerings, Issei and Loulan outsmart gun-toting merchants while Shizuku and Miyabe help prevent greedy lumber exporters from setting fire to precious forests. Returning to the Kanzaki mansion with such unique adventures &#8230; and a single bottle each, the elusive Apostle is about to be revealed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, <em>New World<\/em>\u00a0(which doesn&#8217;t have a volume number) is out of synch with the other four <a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s=%22drops+of+god%22\">published translations thus far<\/a>; the previous volume (<a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/2012\/06\/19\/the-drops-of-god-vol-4-by-tadashi-agi-illustrated-by-shu-okimoto-translated-by-maya-rosewood\/\">#4<\/a>) was a search for the Second Apostle, but\u00a0<em>New World<\/em>\u00a0jumps forward five bottles (and at least as many volumes) to the Seventh.\u00a0We can only hope that fab publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vertical-inc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Vertical, Inc.<\/a> will both fill in, then resume, this holy oenophilic quest sooner than later &#8230; oh please, please, please?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2012 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must confess that I&#8217;ve been loathe to post about this latest volume of The Drops of God\u00a0\u2013 an intoxicating, ongoing race between faux-siblings to identify 13 bottles of phenomenal wines (\u201cThe Twelve Apostles,\u201d plus the eponymous \u201cDrops of God\u201d)\u00a0as chosen by their late legendary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,76,66],"tags":[32,6608,189,109,11,42,1487,1488,1489,173,994],"class_list":["post-18794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese","category-translation","tag-adventure","tag-bookdragon","tag-father-son-relationship","tag-food","tag-friendship","tag-series","tag-series-drops-of-god","tag-shu-okimoto","tag-tadashi-agi","tag-travel","tag-vertical-inc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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