It was serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from September 1988 to April 2014, with its chapters collected in 48 tankōbon volumes.

The goddess Belldandy materializes and tells him that her agency has received a system request from him and has been sent to grant him a single wish.

Since he is unable to live with Belldandy in his male-only dorms, they are forced to look for alternative housing, eventually seeking shelter in an old Buddhist temple.

They are allowed to stay there indefinitely after the young monk living there leaves on a pilgrimage to India upon being impressed by Belldandy's intrinsic goodness.

Three worlds exist in the Universe of Oh My Goddess: Heaven (Valhalla), Hell (Niflheim), and Earth.

As demons work toward the opposite end, the total happiness on Earth must remain in balance.

The demons also operate in a fashion similar to goddesses by creating contracts with humans and offering them wishes, but often at a price.

[7] Other creatures that exist in the Earth plane are a multitude of spirits that are responsible for almost every aspect of life.

Morgan le Fay, a villain from the movie, is probably a high ranking Earth spirit (or a being from another dimension, but that is less likely because her tragic love story with a human must have happened on Earth) who demonstrates great strength fighting Belldandy and Urd, even though her powers are less potent than the ones of goddesses of their level.

Fred Patten, in writing the preface to the collection "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews", stated that fans were still debating whether "Ah!

[13] This approach was also followed by Toren Smith and Dark Horse Comics when translating the manga, released in concert with the OVA series in 1994.

started in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon in September 1988,[20] and finished after a 25-year run on April 25, 2014.

[21][22] Kodansha collected its 308 individual chapters in forty-eight tankōbon volumes, released from August 23, 1989,[23] to July 23, 2014.

[21] A spin-off manga series, titled Aa Shūkatsu no Megami-sama (ああっ就活の女神さまっ, Ah My Job-Hunting Goddess), written by Uhei Aoki and illustrated by Kumichi Yoshizuki, focused on Keiichi and Belldandy's lives during a recession,[25] was serialized in Monthly Afternoon from January 25, 2019,[26] to October 25, 2021.

[29] In North America, the series was licensed for English release by Dark Horse Comics and first published in a left-to-right format.

The story follows the manga, taking place three years after Belldandy and Keiichi first meet.

The novel was first published in Japan on July 20, 2006 by Kodansha;[48] it was then licensed in English by Dark Horse and released in North America on December 12, 2007.

The screenplay was written by Kunihiko Kondo and Nahoko Hasegawa, and the music was provided by Takeshi Yasuda.

[52] In March 2010, TBS announced they were producing a brand new 7-minute OVA for release only with a repackaged and redesigned boxed set for the first season.

It saw the return of the main cast, along with several popular characters from the manga who had not appeared in any of the previous anime.

It is distributed in Japan by Shochiku and in North America and United Kingdom by Geneon Entertainment in 2001.

A 48 episode TV series called Adventures of Mini-Goddess (ああっ女神さまっ 小っちゃいって事は便利だねっ, Aa!

Chicchaitte Koto wa Benri da ne) and featuring shrunken versions of Urd, Belldandy, and Skuld in a comedic super deformed style was produced by Oriental Light and Magic and aired on WOWOW from April 6, 1998[56][57] through March 29, 1999[57][58] as a part of the omnibus show Anime Complex.

The series revolves around the three goddesses and their rat companion Gan-chan, following their adventures in their temple home.

The goddesses remain constantly in miniaturized form, for apparent freedom of space and in order to properly interact with Gan-chan.

[67][68] MVM Films distributed the series in the United Kingdom, with the individual volumes released between February and December 2007 in six similar DVD compilations.

It premiered on TBS on April 6, 2006 and concluded on September 14, 2006, picking up the story from where the series left off in season one.

[75] ADV Films released the season on six DVD compilations, each containing four episodes, between May 2007 and March 2008.

Either in the form of Goddess Family Club or an original soundtrack, the series has led to over a dozen albums.

Player plays as Keiichi Morisato answering to questions posed by characters from the anime/manga such as Belldandy, Skuld, Urd, Lind and Peorth.