Cream Lemon is an early hentai series. The first Cream LemonOVA was released in August 1984, though Cream Lemon was not the first hentai OVA. The first was Lolita Anime, released earlier in February 1984. Related to Cream Lemon is the Project A-ko franchise, which was meant to be the third installment of Cream Lemon but changed during production to be a mainstream film. The only remaining indication is the bath scene with B-ko. Adult entertainment company Excalibur Films dubbed, edited, and released in English five Cream Lemon OVAs as parts two and three of their three-volume Brothers Grime X-Rated Cartoons series. In 1987, Brazilian distributor Everest Video licensed the series for Brazilian distribution and released much of the series on VHS, in uncensored form. These tapes are considered rare and are coveted by fans of the series.
Plot
Cream Lemon is a collection of sometimes surreal stories having different settings and situations, with genres including fantasy, comedy, suspense, sci-fi, action, drama and mystery. The overriding theme of the series is sex of almost any kind imaginable. Most chapters stand alone as separate titles, having no relation to any other stories within the Cream Lemon series. The main recurring character is Ami Nonomura, who has an incestuous relationship with her step-brother Hiroshi. Cream Lemon often focuses on unrealistic and exaggerated sexual themes. One example is the story of a girl who does not like sex because of a series of rapes in her family. To cure this, the school counselor orders her to strip in front of the art class and masturbate herself to the point of orgasm. She then has public sex with a boy and likes it, causing the whole class to start having sex. Many others are similarly surreal.
Media
Cream Lemon
Cream Lemon Omnibus
New Cream Lemon
Ami: From Then On
The Ami: From Then On OVAs are an alternate ending to the Ami series, replacing the 1986 theatrical short filmGoing on a Journey: Ami Final Chapter.
Due to the moral panic after the arrest of Tsutomu Miyazaki, three episodes of this series besides "Magic City Astalot" had sex scenes removed and were released as "The VHS Series". Later, the uncensored works were released as "full versions".
After eight years, the first in a brief new age of Cream Lemon OVAs made their appearance, with another series following the year after. The episodes are connected to the "Escalation" and "Ami" series.
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Non-pornographic animation
A music video, Ami Image -White Shadow-, as well as a feature film, Going on a Journey -Ami Final Chapter-, were released in 1985 and 1986, respectively. Going on a Journey -Ami Final Chapter- was screened as a double feature alongside Project A-ko. They were bundled onto a single LaserDisc set released by Pony Canyon on September 21, 1986. An OVA series titled Cream Lemon: New Generation was released in 2006. ;Ami Image/Journey
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Live-action
On March 21, 1997, a live-action video based on the Escalation series was released under the title Cream Lemon Escalation: Angel Wings. A romantic live action movie titled Cream Lemon, loosely based on the Ami series, was released in Japanese theaters on September 25, 2004. It was directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, with Chiharu Muraishi as Ami and Kenji Mizuhashi as Hiroshi. A nine-episode erotic V-Cinema series, Cream Lemon Label, focusing on forbidden brother-sister relationships, was released from September 16, 2005 to March 28, 2008, with the last episode also being released in theaters on February 23, 2008.
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Re-releases
distributed the Cream Lemon OVAs across eighteen DVD sets from October 25, 1999 to August 25, 2000. AMG Entertainment released a single DVD box set on April 20, 2007.
