One Pound Gospel

One Pound Gospel ( 1 japポンド の 福音, Ichi- pondo no Fukuin ) is a manga series of the Japanese illustrator Rumiko Takahashi. The manga combines topics from sports, romance and comedy, and has also been implemented as an anime and drama.

Action

Kosaku Hatanaka is a boxer of Mukaida - boxing gyms. He is a sporting natural talent, but can not control his insatiable appetite. As a result, he puts on weight and must be in higher weight classes to fight, for which he is not trained. In these battles, he must put up more and more frequently defeats.

Sister Angela, a young novice of the nearby convent, is determined to fight Kosakus urge to gluttony and bring him back to the right path. It therefore encourages him constantly to stay in shape. Unfortunately, brings the continued proximity of the two also affection with him.

Publications

Manga

One- Pound Gospel is published in Japan since 1987 sporadically in individual chapters in the manga magazine Young Sunday of the Shogakukan publishing, the last chapter were previously published in 2001. The incurred up to and including 1996 individual chapters were summarized in three anthologies. The last anthology published in Japan in 2007.

In English, the series in the magazine Animerica by Viz Media has been published. In addition, she appeared on Spanish Planeta DeAgostini in comics.

In German has released all four volumes to September 2008, Egmont Manga and Anime of December 2004.

Anime

Based on the manga series the Studio Gallop produced a one-piece, about 50 -minute Anime OVA of the same name in 1989. In this Makura Saki was directing, character design designed Katsumi Aoshima.

Dorama

From January 2008 to March 2008, a live-action series to One Pound Gospel with Kazuya Kamenashi was broadcast in the role of Kosaku Hatanaka on NTV.

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