Live-Action Drops of God Series Season 2 Premieres on January 21
Season gets 8 episodes on Apple TV+
Apple TV+ announced on Wednesday that the second season of Drops of God, an internationally co-produced, multilingual live-action television series of Tadashi Agi and Shū Okimoto's The Drops of God (Kami no Shizuku) manga, will premiere on January 21, 2026. A new episode will stream every week until March 11 for a total of eight episodes. The company also posted an image from the new season:The series won the International Emmy for Drama Series at the 2024 International Emmy Awards.Oded Ruskin (Absentia, No Man's Land) is returning to direct the new season, and Quoc Dang Tran (Marianne, Parallel) is again writing the scripts. Dynamic's Klaus Zimmermann (Borgia, Trapped) is producing the series. The series is a collaboration between U.S., French, and Japanese companies. Legendary Television, Dynamic Television, France Télévisions, and Hulu Japan are backing the project, and are producing the project with Adline Entertainment and 22H22. The official title in Japan is Kami no Shizuku/Drops of God. (Similar to the title in Japan for the second Fullmetal Alchemist television series, the live-action series' title includes both the Japanese and English titles of the manga.) Legendary Television is handling worldwide distribution outside of FranApple TV+ describes the story:
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 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.Sources: Apple TV+, Deadline (Jesse Whittock)