Manga about wine triggers new wine boom

In Japan, manga is used to teach a lot of things. In the case of Kami no Shizuku, it helped revive the country's interest in fine wines. The manga, written by Tadashi Agi, is a 15-volume series about a wine connoisseur named Shizuku, the son of a famous wine critic who is on a mission to find the 12 best wines in the world. Real world critics are saying that this imaginary character's opinions are influencing the nation's taste buds more than any sommelier or wine magazine. Half a million Japanese read its installations every week, and the translated versions are a huge hit in other parts of Asia, too.

Anyway, I just thought of it because my mom's a huge fan and left a giant stack of these manga in my room. Link

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[yuvali]

Reminds me of what sex and the city did for the sales of cosmopolitans

[Mosquito_Ace]

or Manolo Blahnik...