is an early

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series. The first ''Cream Lemon'' OVA was released in August 1984, though ''Cream Lemon'' was not the first hentai OVA. The first was ''

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'', 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 and 1989. In 1987, Brazilian distributor Everest Video licensed the series and released much of it on VHS, in uncensored form.

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, mecha, magical girl, horror, 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

incest Incest ( ) is human sexual activity between family members or close relatives. This typically includes sexual activity between people in consanguinity (blood relations), and sometimes those related by affinity ( marriage or stepfamily), ado ...

uous relationship with her step-brother Hiroshi. ''Cream Lemon'' often focuses on unrealistic and exaggerated sexual themes. One example is the story of a teenage girl who does not like having 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 film ''Going on a Journey: Ami Final Chapter''.

Manga Artist series

Due to the

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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".

Miscellaneous specials

New Century Cream Lemon

After eight years, the first in a brief new age of ''Cream Lemon'' OVAs made its appearance, with another following the year after. The episodes are connected to the "Escalation" and "Ami" series.

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

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set released by

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on September 21, 1986. An OVA series titled ''Cream Lemon: New Generation'' was released in 2006.

Ami Image/Journey

Cream Lemon: New Generation

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

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, with Chiharu Muraishi as Ami and

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as Hiroshi. A nine-episode erotic

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(direct-to-video) 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.

Video games

Re-releases

Green Bunny 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.

Voice actors

;Ami series * Hitomi Oikawa as Ami Nonomura *

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as Hiroshi Nonomura *

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as Satomi Kudō *

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as Kyōko Terasawa *

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as Yasuko Nonomura & Kyōko Hori * Kouichi Hashimoto as Ryūji Kōno ;Escalation series *

as Naomi Hayakawa *

as Rie Komatsuzaki *

as Midori Ōmori * Hitomi Oikawa as Teacher *

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as Mari *

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as Naomi's father *

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as Arisa Kuriki ;Rall series * Sanae Miyuki as Caron *

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as Ramorue *

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as Peruru *

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as Raike *

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as Sara ;Pop Chaser * Kaori Hanai as Rio * Makoto Kōsaka (Yoshie Takaishi) as Mai * Yuji Osada as Bartender * Yasu Sato as Zack ;Mako series * Mayumi Shou &

as Mako Kiryū * Shigeru Nakahara as Yū * Masako Miura as Free & Repress * Hitomi Oikawa as Friend C *

as Friend ;Super Virgin *

as Mako * Aya Mizoguchi as Iiya Ōane *

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as Tamaki ;Happening Summer *

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as Akira *

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as Keiko *

as Yuki *

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as Etsuko Aoki ;Star Trap * Chieko Honda as Ran * Sanae Miyuki as Kanata * Kouichi Hashimoto as Joke Tōgō ;Black Cat Manor series *

as Marisa Ayukawa *

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as Masaki Murakami *

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as Saeko Ayukawa * Aya Mizoguchi as Aya Ōmuro ;Nalice Scramble * Chieko Honda as Narisu Madogiwa * Kenichi Ogata as Principal Madogiwa * Emi Shinohara as Rami Ichimonji * Aya Mizoguchi as An Koshi & Kyan Hitomi * Yumi Takada as Seiko Madogiwa

Reception

AVN reviewed volumes two and three of the ''Brothers Grime X-Rated Cartoons'' series.

Notes

References

*McCarthy, Helen and Jonathan Clements. ''The Erotic Anime Movie Guide''. London: Titan Books, 1998. . (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1999. .) Chapter 5 covers ''Cream Lemon'' in detail. *

External links

''Cream Lemon'' official site
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