Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai
| Thunder Jet: Raiders of the Galaxy Empire | |
First volume cover of the digital re-release of the manga | |
| 銀河戦国群雄伝ライ (Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai) | |
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| Genre | Science fiction, Space opera |
| Manga | |
| Written by | George Manabe |
| Published by | Kadokawa Shoten MediaWorks |
| Magazine | Comic Comp (1989–1992) Dengeki Comic Gao! (1992–2001) |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | November 1989 – November 2001 |
| Volumes | 27 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Seiji Okuda |
| Written by | Jinzō Toriumi |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | E&G Films |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 8, 1994 – March 31, 1995 |
| Episodes | 52 |
Ginga Sengoku Gun'yūden Rai (銀河戦国群雄伝ライ; lit. "Galaxy Warring State Chronicle Rai") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by George Manabe. It was first serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Comic Comp Magazine beginning November 1989 up to January 1993. The series transferred publication to MediaWorks's Dengeki Comic Gao! magazine from February 1993 to November 2001. The series focuses on Rai Ryuga, a young courageous warrior who seeks to unify the cosmos in a war against other two powerful forces. The series borrows heavily from events of the Sengoku period and events from the Chinese historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
An anime adaptation of the series aired on TV Tokyo from April 8, 1994, to March 31, 1995. It was known outside Japan as Thunder Jet: Raiders of the Galaxy Empire. Surprisingly, this manga has more popularity in the Arab countries, due to dubbing it on the famous kids TV channel "SPACETOON", and known as " (Hazeem Al Raad) هزيم الرعد".