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One-Pound Gospel (manga)

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Alternative title:
Ichi Pound no Fukuin (Japanese)
１ポンドの福音 (Japanese)
１磅的福音 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Genres: comedy, romance
Themes: boxing
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: Kosaku Hatanaka is a natural at boxing, but he can't control his voracious appetite. Kosaku eats anything and everything. As a result, his weight goes up and he is forced to fight in heftier weight class bouts. Sister Angela is a young novice nun who feels for Kosuke. She encourages him, and does whatever she can to make sure Kosaku is in shape.
User Ratings: 49 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Excellent: 11 votes (Eng:7, dub:2, raw:1, sub:1)
 Very good: 13 votes (Eng:7, sub:2, dub:1, raw:1, ?:1, others:1
1 German edited dub
)
 Good: 15 votes (Eng:9, sub:3, dub:1, others:2
1 German
1 French subtitled
)
 Decent: 4 votes (Eng:4)
 So-so: 3 votes (Eng:3)
 Not really good: -
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: 1 vote (Eng:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 150 users, rank: #582 (of 6718)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 7.510 (Very good−), std. dev.: 1.5269, rank: #2074 (of 7449)
Weighted mean: 7.482 (Good+), rank: #2500 (of 7449) (seen all: 7.80 / seen some: 6.23 / won't finish: 7.00)
Bayesian estimate: 7.498 (Good+), rank: #1515 (of 3484)
Number of tankoubon: 4
Number of pages: 240
Volumes:
#2. Hungry for Victory
#3. Knuckle Sandwich
Chapter titles: We have 37
Vintage:
1989
2004-12 to 2008-09 (Germany)
Release dates: We have 12
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
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Viz to Print Cat Eyed Boy, Black Lagoon, Tanemura Works (Jan 24, 2008)
Rumiko Takahashi's One-Pound Gospel Dramatized for TV (Nov 5, 2007)
Weekend Wrapup - Week in Anime [30/7 - 6/8] (Aug 6, 2006)
Rumiko Takahashi Wraps up One-Pound Gospel (Aug 4, 2006)
Anime Central 2003 - Sunday Industry Panels (May 26, 2003)
Takahashi to restart One Pound Gospel (May 29, 2001)
Other article:
House of 1000 Manga - One Pound Gospel (Sep 4, 2014)
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Graphic novel
    One-Pound Gospel [1st Ed] (GN 1) 1996-08-05 (from $6.99)
    One-Pound Gospel [1st Ed] - Hungry For Victory (GN 2) 1997-04-28 (from $8.25)
    One-Pound Gospel [1st Ed] - Knuckle Sandwich (GN 3) 1998-06-05 (from $5.19)
    One-Pound Gospel [2nd Ed] (GN 1) 2008-06-10 (from $6.69)
    One-Pound Gospel [2nd Ed] (GN 2) 2008-08-12 (from $7.99)
    One-Pound Gospel [2nd Ed] (GN 3) 2008-10-14 (from $7.99)
    One-Pound Gospel [2nd Ed] (GN 4) 2008-12-09 (from $6.69)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Story & Art: Rumiko Takahashi
(none)
Japanese companies
Publisher: Shogakukan
English staff
English cast
Translation: Mari Morimoto (2nd edition, vol. 4)

Adaptation:
Gerard Jones
Julie Davis (2nd edition, vol. 4)
Mari Morimoto
Design: Hidemi Sahara (2nd edition)
Editing:
Annette Roman
Kit Fox (2nd edition)
Trish Ledoux
Editing Assistant: Toshifumi Yoshida
Publisher: Seiji Horibuchi
Touch-up Art & Lettering:
Bill Schuch (2nd edition)
Mary Kelleher
Wayne Truman
(none)
English companies
Cover Design: VIZ Graphics
Licensed by: Viz Media
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Publisher: Planeta DeAgostini Comics (Spain)
Spanish cast
(none)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Publisher: Edizioni Star Comics (1997-1998)
Italian cast
(none)
German cast
German staff
Translation: Costa Caspary
(none)
German companies
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Licensed by: Sharp Point Press
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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