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Me and the Devil Blues (manga)

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Alternative title:
Ore to Akuma no Blues (Japanese)
俺と悪魔のブルーズ (Japanese)
我和惡魔的藍調 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Themes: historical, music
Plot Summary: If you take your guitar and stand at crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He'll take your guitar and play a song and surely, he will give it back to you. You'll walk away as an expert , but at the price of your very soul..
User Ratings: 30 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 5 votes (dub:3, Eng:2)
 Excellent: 14 votes (Eng:8, dub:3, sub:2, others:1
1 French
)
 Very good: 3 votes (Eng:3)
 Good: 4 votes (Eng:2, dub:1, sub:1)
 Decent: 3 votes (Eng:2, others:1
1 French
)
 So-so: -
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (Eng:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 52 users, rank: #1445 (of 7041)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.200 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.9391, rank: #636 (of 7925)
Weighted mean: 8.492 (Very good+), rank: #478 (of 7925) (seen all: 8.43 / seen some: 8.76 / won't finish: 6.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.397 (Very good+), rank: #93 (of 3557)
Number of tankoubon: 4
Chapter titles: We have 35
Vintage:
2003-12-25 to 2008-02-25 (serialized in Afternoon, Feb 2004-Apr 2008)
2014-09-05 to 2015-05-02 (Young Magazine the 3rd, 2014 Vol.1-2015 Vol.8)
Release dates: We have 15
Comment:
Heavily influenced by the life of famous Delta Blues musician Robert Leroy Johnson (1911-1938), but no reference was made.
Review:
Me and the Devil Blues GN 1 (Sep 1, 2008)
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Graphic novel
    Me and the Devil Blues (GN 1) 2008-07-29 (from $110.39)
    Me and the Devil Blues (GN 2) 2008-12-30 (from $15.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Akira Hiramoto

Essay:
Makoto Ayukawa (Volume 2)
Mitsuyoshi Azuma (Volume 3)
Reichi Nakaido (Volume 4)
Takashi Nagai (Volume 1)
Firearms Consultant: Heihachiro Matsumoto
Illustration Staff:
Akihiro Sugiyama
Shintaro Suzuki
Souta Amada
Takashi Heishiki
Yasuhiro Torii
Layout: Terumi Ishikawa
Research:
Naohiro Mutou
Nobumasa Sakagami
Supervising Editor: Takashi Nagai
Title Logo Design: Ken Inatomi
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Kodansha
English cast
English staff
Translation: David Ury

Adaptation: David Ury
(none)
English companies
Lettering: North Market Street Graphics
Licensed by: Del Rey
French staff
French companies
(none)
Publisher: Kana
French cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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