Metalepsis and the Role of Domain Experts in the Wine Manga The Drops of God

This paper claims that the authors of Japanese wine manga The Drops God were able to create a convincing professional world by using real-life domain experts as fictional characters. In fiction, device known metalepsis involves either illusion character entering our or introduction real people into narrative. features metaleptic movements in both directions. builds upon previous FASP research which has shown specialized genre fiction is marked use distinct, vocabulary and knowledge, presence experts. These make depicted seem real, thereby enhancing readerly satisfaction. While language terminology correctly, hero not specialist but an iconoclast who breaks most rules governing correct winespeak appreciation. It argued incursions characters, along with complex, contradictory attitudes expressed about expertise—particularly winespeak—combined powerful tool for advertising.