Raijin Comics is a discontinuedmanga anthology published from 2002 until 2004 inNorth America by the now-defunctGutsoon! Entertainment and largely backed by theSega Corporation at its inception. The collected volumes ofRaijin Comics titles were published under theRaijin Graphic Novelsimprint. The magazine was aimed at mature readers.

Premiering with a cover date of December 18, 2002,Raijin was initially published on a weekly basis similar to various popular manga magazines in Japan, includingCoamix's ownWeekly Comic Bunch. However, distribution problems made the weekly schedule difficult to maintain and the weekly format ceased with issue #36 (September 10, 2003), becoming a monthly publication from issue #37 (October 2003).^[1] The magazine eventually ceased publication with issue #46 (July 2004). Its failure to break into the U.S. market has been attributed to competition with the North American version ofShonen Jump, which debuted shortly afterward, despite the fact that they were aimed at different age range. Also, unlike Jump, many of the titles in Raijin lacked general brand awareness amongst casual American manga fans.

On May 5, 2005, Raijin lost control of theraijincomics.comdomain name todomain squatters. The corporate website,gutsoon.com^[usurped] remained in operation for many years but wasn't updated after June 2004,^[2] and as of mid-2010, has been taken over by domain squatters. Since the folding ofRaijin Comics, some of its titles (Slam Dunk,Guardian Angel Getten andFist of the North Star) have since been licensed to other companies.

The following series were serialized inRaijin Comics, with the issues they appeared in parentheses:

• Baki the Grappler (2-46)
• Bomber Girl (1-11)
• Bow Wow Wata (14-21, 23–33, 35–41, 43–46)
• City Hunter (1-46)
• The First President of Japan (2-18, 20–23, 25–29)
• Fist of the Blue Sky (1-31, 34–35, 37–46)
• Guardian Angel Getten (4-7, 9-20, 22–32, 34–46)
• Nemuri Kyoshiro (33-46)
• Hana no Keiji (19-34, 36–45)
• Mountain Climbers Saga (5, 13, 46)
• Revenge of Mouflon (4-18, 30–36, 38–46)
• Slam Dunk (1-14, 16–46)

• List of manga magazines published outside of Japan

• Raijin Comics^[usurped] (Waybacked)

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