Cocktail mixology is a prestige form of art that involves creating different mixtures of ingredients and the methods of creating said drink, creating different kinds of distinct flavors tailored to the person's preferred cocktail. Bartenders would take it a step further and add the skill of hospitality, relaxing the customers, whether it's maintaining the high mood they've gotten prior to entering or keeping the tense out of the person that may have caused from an internal battle towards others or themselves, and offering a drink of solace. ***

This adaptation of Bartender: Glass of God offers that comforting solace in the cocktail in the span of 20 minutes per episode. Each scene inside the bar brings the vibe of comfort as Ryuu Sasakura (Takuma Terashima) welcomes you with his gentle voice, assuring that the bar is a place to unwind from the chaos, and delicately prepares you a cocktail in sequence with silky-smooth, thirst-inducing visuals complimented by the dim yet relaxing aesthetics and the sound design of hearing ice shaking inside a cocktail shaker. All combined to create the most relaxing and intriguing atmosphere in the anime that makes you feel like you're part of the experience witnessing the creation of cocktail art.

Do note that this anime is not mainly focused on the cocktails and the technicalities on how to make them, as it is not where the series is trying to go for itself, but rather it's a series where you follow a man's passion for creating cocktails and witnessing people enjoying the drink he made for them, as well as little sprinkles of cocktail competitions and dramatic tension regarding cocktails along the way.

One notable aspect of the series is that as the episode count goes up, we start to deviate from the theme of the first few episodes, where the main points of the series mainly revolve around the bar, the drinks it offers, and the experiences people have when they drink the cocktail. The episode starts to deviate from its simplicity and starts exploring different characters who were introduced earlier in the episodes but are now in full spotlight. The passion of these characters wanting to make the perfect cocktail from their perspective, judged by either a professional cocktail mixer or another person, can be very riveting, but it's a huge deviation from how you expect the show to be. ***

Bartender: Glass of God is a comforting anime for a specific niche of audiences who enjoy discovering any types of art creation on a specific medium, such as cocktail mixing, and for people who just want to watch an anime and just relax. There's nothing really much the series offers and risks that would console itself as the top animes of the year, and that's okay since the show offers enough for that without overstaying its welcome.