An American Story In Japanese Interpretation

It is not very common for manga stories to tell an whole American myths, but Me and the Devil Blues is certainly something else.

This is a development of the story of Robert Johnson and the Blues culture during the 1930 in the South.

RJ or so the story goes was playing so bad that the other musicians told him that the only way for him to become a real musician is to sell his soul to the devil.

The manga takes this as a starting point to a story that is not really based on the actual history but rather takes the impossible situation of a young black man in the rural south during the depression of 1930 and soar with it to him having to face supernatural powers much worse than the racism of those days.

Prospero’s Manga gave it 4 stars and I second her on it.