#Glass of God Releases Kitakata Character Cocktail Visual

A new character and cocktail visual has been released for the upcoming Bartender: Glass of God TV anime series, spotlighting Kitakata (voiced by Hiroki Tochi) and an Old Fashioned drink recipe. The series is scheduled to premiere in April 2024. 

The visual lists the ingredients for an Old Fashioned cocktail, which includes bourbon, aromatic bitters, and a sugar cube. 

Ryouichi Kuraya (Farming Life in Another World) is directing the new anime series, with Mariko Kunisawa (Orient Season 2) as series screenwriter, and Youichi Ueda (High-Rise Invasion) as character designer and chief animation director. Liber is handling the animation production for the series.  

Meanwhile, the anime’s main voice cast includes: 

• • Takuma Terashima as Ryuu Sasakura
• • Yoshino Nanjou as Miwa Kurushima
• • Haruka Shiraishi as Yukari Higuchi
• • Eriko Matsui as Kyouko Kawakami
• • Ryouko Shiraishi as Yuri Kinjou
• • Makoto Furukawa as Calvin Chen

The anime is inspired by the original Bartender manga series, written by Araki Joh and illustrated by Kenji Nagatomo. It was serialized in Shueisha’s Super Jump and Grand Jump magazines between May 2004 and February 2011. Twenty-one tankoubon volumes were released in total. 

The manga inspired several follow-up titles such as Bartender à Paris in 2012, Bartender à Tokyo in 2013, and Bartender 6stp in 2016. All three series were illustrated by Osamu Kajisa. 

The manga was previously adapted into a 2006 anime series and a 2011 TV drama. Shout! Factory and Anime Limited released the 2006 anime digitally and physically in North America in 2020. 

Crunchyroll is streaming the 2024 anime series, with Prime Video describing the story of the 2006 series as:

At the Eden Hall bar, genius bartender Ryu Sasakura serves divine drinks and helps out his customers with whatever troubles they have.

Source: Bartender Official Anime Twitter