It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday from July 1987 to December 2006, with its chapters collected into four tankōbon volumes.

A live-action television drama adaptation starring Kazuya Kamenashi from KAT-TUN and Meisa Kuroki aired for nine episodes in 2008.

Into this picture steps Sister Angela (シスターアンジェラ, Shisutā Anjera), a novice nun who takes Kosaku on as a personal project, determined to set him on the right path and break his habit of gluttony.

Written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, chapters of One-pound Gospel were sporadically published in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Young Sunday between July 24, 1987, and December 21, 2006.

The nine-episode series stars KAT-TUN's Kamenashi Kazuya as Hatanaka Kosaku and Meisa Kuroki as Sister Angela.

Shaenon K. Garrity, writing for Anime News Network, stated that despite the unlikely combination of boxing and Catholicism in a situational comedy, Takahashi makes it work.