We discuss alcohol in anime, who drinks it, what are the character archetypes who drink? What alcohol is most common in Japan and what do you see in anime? We also reveal our own anime cocktails, click for our recipes!

• Bartender anime- Created to honor the 200th aniversary of the brith of the “cocktail”

• Suze Gimlet
• Martini
• Pousse Cafe style grasshopper
• Side car

• Drunken anime mother or mother figure

• Air
• Evangelion
• Yusuke’s mother in YYH
• Holo drinks her ass off in spice and wolf

• Drunken badasses only.  You’ll never find a magical girl guzzling beer.  Cute anime characters don’t drink and if they do, they get tipsy and red after 1 sip

• Gene starwind (bounty hunter) gets drunk a lot and shows off for the ladies and prostitutes
• Melissa (soldier) from FMP loves her alcohol.
• Ryoko (pirate) from Tenchi Muyo
• Onizuka (biker gang leader)
• Spike (bounty hunter)
• Berserk
• Black lagoon

Beer – as seen in: Lots of Anime! Everything from Wake Up Girls to Space Brothers to Hajime no Ippo

• Kirin Iciban
  • American Pale Lager
  • 5% ABV
• Asahi Dry
  • Japanese Rice Lager
  • 5% ABV
• Sapporo
  • Japanese Rice Lager
  • 5% ABV
• Preston Ale
  • English Pale Ale
  • Has a Moyashimon line of beers.
  • Brewed in Utsunomiya
• Yebisu Beer
  • Dortmunder
  • 5% ABV
  • Drank by Misato in Eva

Sake – as seen in: Lots of anime also!

• Nihonshu
  • This is what Westerners commonly call ‘sake’
  • A Product of brewing
  • Made from fermented rice
    • Despite sometimes being called “rice wine” the process is more similar to beer
  • Most sake is about 40 proof
  • Can be served hot or cold depending on type and flavor
  • Featured in Moyashimon
  • eyeshield 21, their coach is a big alcoholic and is always drinking sake out of a jug
  • Jiraiya from Naruto
• Awamori
  • Unique to Okinawa
  • Made from long grain rice
  • Not a product of brewing but of distilling
  • Featured in Moyashimon
  • 60-86 Proof
  • Brewed in clay pots for a mellow flavor

Souchu – as seen in: Vocaloid

• Vocaloid 2 Lily is featured on a bottle of alcohol “Mou Souchu Lily” in a courtesan costume
• Distilled beverage from barley/buckwheat/rice/sweet potatoes
• Normally 25% ABV

Chiaki’s Anime Inspired cocktails:

• The Life Fiber (Inspired by Kill La Kill)
  • Cinnamon Vodka
  • Grenadine
  • Sprite
  • 1 strand of a twizzler licorice for garnish
• The Paralyzed Moe (Inspired by Brynhider in the Darkness)
  • Cake Vodka
  • Baleys Irish Cream
  • Kalua
  • 1 Scoop Vanilla Ice Cream
  • 1 Small Slice of Cake
  • 3 Tablespoons Rainbow Sprinkles
  • Blend Together adding cream/milk as necessary, serve with whipped cream on top and garnish with more sprinkles and a cherry
• Apple of Fate Martini (Inspired by Mawaru Penguindrum)
  • Green Apple Vodka
  • Cinnamon Sugar Vodka
  • Apple Juice
  • Serve in a martini Glass rimmed with cinnamon/sugar, garnish with apple if desired

Mitsugi’s Anime Inspired cocktails:

• Bloody Moe (sponsored by the church of mitsugi)
  • Tomato juice
  • Blood of moe girl
  • 2 lashings from the church to remind you of the evils of moe
  • One celery stick
  • spices
• The Zatoichi – drink so stiff it makes you blind
  • Straight gin
  • roots of a gnarled tree from aokigahara
  • mandrake root extract or if you’re a pussy, ginseng
  • Ice
  • Seeing eye dog

Kram’s Anime Inspired cocktails:

• The Berserk
  • Redbull
  • Tequila
  • Whiskey
  • Superpump MAX
• Red Data Punch
  • Fruit punch
  • Vodka