Raijin Comics
-From Rage Quitter 87's Fist of the North Star site

Raijin Comics is the name of a magazine published by Gutsoon! Entertainment between 2002 and 2004. The magazine featured various manga strips, including City Hunter, Slam Dunk and Baki the Grappler. However for Fist of the North Star fans Raijin released several volumes of both Fist of the North Star and Fist of the Blue Sky. For the original manga, volumes were published under the name of Fist of the North Star: Master Edition, which marked the second time a company had published the Fist of the North Star manga, following on from Viz. For Fist of the Blue Sky, some parts of the manga were featured in the magazine, and the company also released several volumes of it.

The Raijin Comics magazine never really seemed to see much success and in less than two years it was cancelled. Actually Gutsoon! Entertainment seemed to disappear from this world completely, even though the Fist of the North Star Master Edition volumes were apparently selling well enough (a 10th volume was advertised but never released). Not only did the Master Editions feature colored art, but they also kept the right to left format of the original Japanese version. Each volume usually had some bonus pages, including character profiles and original artwork. The Fist of the Blue Sky volumes have black and white art.

Contents
1) List of Raijin Comic's Fist of the North Star: Master Edition volumes
2) List of Raijin Comic's Fist of the Blue Sky volumes

List of Raijin Comic's Fist of the North Star: Master Edition volumes

	Volume 1 Released: January 2003 RRP: $14.95 Contains chapters 1-8 of the manga. Basically goes from Kenshiro appearing for the first time to the start of the Kenshiro Vs. Shin fight (this volume ends with Ken stopping Shin's rapid strikes move).
	Volume 2 Released: February 2003 RRP: $14.95 Contains chapters 9-17. In other words it starts with the rest of the fight between Kenshiro and Shin to Jackal and his gang getting ready to follow Kenshiro.
	Volume 3 Released: March 2003 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 18-26. Goes from Kenshiro, Bat and Lin arriving in Toyo's village to Rei arriving in Mamiya's village. This volume marked the start of a slightly higher RRP than the previous two.
	Volume 4 Released: May 2003 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 27-34. This volume starts with Kenshiro meeting Mamiya for the first time to Ken and Rei about to fight each other. This was also the first new volume to be released in two months, rather than one. An alternate cover was advertised, although I don't know if it was actually available.
	Volume 5 Released: July 2003 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 35-42. Goes from the Kenshiro Vs. Rei fight to Ken and Jagi getting ready to fight each other. An alternate cover was advertised, although I don't know if it was actually available.
	Volume 6 Released: September 2003 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 43-50. Starts with Kenshiro fighting Jagi and ends with Kenshiro recovering from Amiba hitting his pressure points. Some places state that this volume was released in November, but I'm going to go with September as most places say, it makes more sense.
	Volume 7 Released: November 2003 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 51-58. Starts with Kenshiro fighting Amiba and ends with Kenshiro and his friends finding out that Raiga and Fuuga have been killed.
	Volume 8 Released: February 2004 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 59-66. Starts with Uighur warning that Kenshiro and Toki must not meet and ends with Kenshiro challenging Raoh. This was also the first new volume to be released in three months, rather than two. An alternate cover was advertised, although I don't know if it was actually available.
	Volume 9 Released: May 2004 RRP: $17.95 Contains chapters 67-74. Starts with Kenshiro and Raoh fighting each other for the first time and ends with Kenshiro and Rei confronting Galf (who was re-named "Jack" in this translation).
	Volume 10 Released: Unreleased RRP: N/A This volume was advertised but it was never actually released. It would have probably contained chapters 75-82 (basically going from Galf's death to Rei's death).

List of Raijin Comic's Fist of the Blue Sky volumes

	Volume 1 Released: June 2003 RRP: $9.95 Contains chapters 1-8. Goes from the opening scene with Ryuken to Kenshiro Kasumi telling Takeshi Kitaoji he is leaving for Shanghai.
	Volume 2 Released: November 2003 RRP: $9.95 Contains chapters 9-18. Goes from Wu learning that Yan-Wang was in Tokyo to Charles de Guise making his first appearance.
	Volume 3 Released: February 2004 RRP: $9.95 Contains chapters 19-29. Goes from Wu leaning Yan-Wang is in the execution game to Wu getting ready to kill Pan Guang-Lin.
	Volume 4 Released: March 2004 RRP: $9.95 Contains chapters 30-39. Goes from Charles talking to Mei-Yue to Mang Kuang-Yun telling Kenshiro that he erased Pan Yu-Ling's memory.
	Volume 5 Released: Unreleased RRP: N/A This volume was advertised but it was never actually released.