| Cream Lemon | |
 Cream Lemon: Mako Sexy Symphony cover | |
| くりいむレモン or くりぃむレモン (Kurīmu Remon) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Hentai |
| Original video animation | |
| Directed by | Various |
| Produced by | Various |
| Written by | Various |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Fairy Dust |
| Released | August 11, 1984 – February 21, 1987 |
| Episodes | 16 |
| Original video animation | |
| Ami Image/Journey | |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Fairy Dust (Image) A.P.P.P. (Journey) |
| Released | December 15, 1985 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes (Image) 40 minutes (Journey) |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Original video animation | |
| New Cream Lemon | |
| Directed by | Various |
| Produced by | Various |
| Written by | Various |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | AIC |
| Released | March 21, 1987 – March 21, 1988 |
| Episodes | 9 |
| Original video animation | |
| Special Chapters | |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Fairy Dust |
| Released | June 25, 1987 – March 19, 1993 |
| Episodes | 5 |
| Original video animation | |
| Ami: From Then On | |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Fairy Dust |
| Released | October 21, 1988 – May 21, 1990 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Original video animation | |
| Manga Artist Series | |
| Music by | Kōji Makaino |
| Studio | Fairy Dust |
| Released | September 1, 1989 – January 21, 1990 |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Original video animation | |
| New Century Cream Lemon | |
| Directed by | Keitaro Motonaga |
| Produced by | Mamoto Yamazaki |
| Written by | Toshizo Nemoto |
| Music by | Noriyasu Agematsu |
| Studio | Studio Dolphin Night |
| Released | July 27, 2001 – August 23, 2002 |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Original video animation | |
| Cream Lemon: New Generation | |
| Directed by | Naruyo Takahashi |
| Produced by | Hiroshi Negishi |
| Written by | Takamitsu Kouno Masaharu Amiya |
| Music by | Kazuya Nishioka |
| Studio | Mobanimation |
| Released | March 23, 2006 – May 31, 2006 |
| Episodes | 4 |
Cream Lemon (くりいむレモン or くりぃむレモン, Kurīmu Remon) is an early hentai series. The first Cream Lemon OVA was released in August 1984, though Cream Lemon was not the first hentai OVA. The first was Lolita Anime, released earlier in February 1984. Patrick W. Galbraith writes that Cream Lemon "was by far the longest running and most influential" hentai series in the 1980s and "laid the foundation for pornographic animation in Japan".[1]
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 and 1989. In 1987, Brazilian distributor Everest Video licensed the series and released much of it on VHS, in uncensored form.
- ^ Galbraith, Patrick W. (2023-03-06). "The ethics of imaginary violence, part 3: early animated pornography in Japan". Porn Studies. 10 (3): 268–282. doi:10.1080/23268743.2023.2173280. ISSN 2326-8743. S2CID 257394192.