Something that was long delayed from my side...and there are many things to be said about it.
Lemon Angel was a cross-media project made in the late 80s, supporting a live idol trio, together with TV broadcast of them or their anime counterparts. Their names are Tomo Sakurai, Erika Shima and Miki Emoto. Several albums, concerts and anime were produced within few years. The trio stopped in the 1990s, and Tomo Sakurai was the most successful in solo, including being anime seiyuu in Macross 7, Kenshin or El Hazard.
The anime aired through 1987 and 1988 in Fuji TV on late night, three days per week. Each episode is made as a 3 mn semi-animated clip, with more or less story inside. Few TV shows were also produced, with the "live" trio telling fans how cool it is to be an idol (or something like that lol).
There are 3 "seasons" making 54 episodes in total. The official season titles are:
Season 1: くりいむレモン レモンエンジェル = Cream Lemon Lemon Angel (37 episodes)
Season 2: レモンエンジェル = Lemon Angel (9 episodes)
Season 3: Lemon Angel (in romaji, 8 episodes)
Also a special series called "Lemon Hakusho" (レモン白書), that is exactly like a motion comic, was produced around the same time. Some japanese infos there:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/レモンエンジェル_(アニメ)
The broadcast included also "digest" of real Cream Lemon episodes, without the most naughty parts of course! During the first season each "Angel" got a specific day slot. Here comes the actual broadcast of all series, by week day:
Tuesday
06.10.1987-22.12.1987 Season 1 (Erika episodes)
29.12.1987 Xmas break
05.01.1988-26.01.1988 Cream Lemon highlights
02.02.1988-29.03.1988 Season 2
05.04.1988 break
12.04.1988-28.06.1988 Cream Lemon highlights
Wednesday
07.10.1987-23.12.1987 Season 1 (Miki episodes)
30.12.1987 Xmas break
06.01.1988-30.03.1988 Lemon Hakusho
06.04.1988 break
13.04.1988-29.06.1988 Lemon Hakusho (continued)
06.07.1988-28.09.1988 Season 3 (including alternate versions of several episodes)
Thursday
01.10.1987-24.12.1987 Season 1 (Tomo episodes, the first to be broadcasted)
31.12.1987 Xmas break
07.01.1988-31.03.1988 Cream Lemon highlights (maybe longer)
There are many LD and DVD rips floating on the web, but all were missing two episodes that didn't go into the various box sets released in Japan, both from season 1. Episode 15 was in one individual VHS or LD release, and episode 36 was TV-only. To make things more complicated, all compilations releases messed up the episode ordering compared to the TV broadcast.
There was recently a wonderful encoding of the DVD-box made by Nightvision on Hongfire, much better than anything else found so far. It was proposed there:
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61687&page=3
He has also made a TVrip of episode 36. I took the time to seperate the clips, re-order them, and found also episode 15. The original plan was to put together the anime PLUS the two albums, since many tracks were used in the anime, but I'm still missing the second album (used for season 3 normally), so I'll keep this or another torrent. Extras include DVD cover art and booklet scans.
Have a good time with the Angels!
Lemon Angel was a cross-media project made in the late 80s, supporting a live idol trio, together with TV broadcast of them or their anime counterparts. Their names are Tomo Sakurai, Erika Shima and Miki Emoto. Several albums, concerts and anime were produced within few years. The trio stopped in the 1990s, and Tomo Sakurai was the most successful in solo, including being anime seiyuu in Macross 7, Kenshin or El Hazard.
The anime aired through 1987 and 1988 in Fuji TV on late night, three days per week. Each episode is made as a 3 mn semi-animated clip, with more or less story inside. Few TV shows were also produced, with the "live" trio telling fans how cool it is to be an idol (or something like that lol).
There are 3 "seasons" making 54 episodes in total. The official season titles are:
Season 1: くりいむレモン レモンエンジェル = Cream Lemon Lemon Angel (37 episodes)
Season 2: レモンエンジェル = Lemon Angel (9 episodes)
Season 3: Lemon Angel (in romaji, 8 episodes)
Also a special series called "Lemon Hakusho" (レモン白書), that is exactly like a motion comic, was produced around the same time. Some japanese infos there:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/レモンエンジェル_(アニメ)
The broadcast included also "digest" of real Cream Lemon episodes, without the most naughty parts of course! During the first season each "Angel" got a specific day slot. Here comes the actual broadcast of all series, by week day:
Tuesday
06.10.1987-22.12.1987 Season 1 (Erika episodes)
29.12.1987 Xmas break
05.01.1988-26.01.1988 Cream Lemon highlights
02.02.1988-29.03.1988 Season 2
05.04.1988 break
12.04.1988-28.06.1988 Cream Lemon highlights
Wednesday
07.10.1987-23.12.1987 Season 1 (Miki episodes)
30.12.1987 Xmas break
06.01.1988-30.03.1988 Lemon Hakusho
06.04.1988 break
13.04.1988-29.06.1988 Lemon Hakusho (continued)
06.07.1988-28.09.1988 Season 3 (including alternate versions of several episodes)
Thursday
01.10.1987-24.12.1987 Season 1 (Tomo episodes, the first to be broadcasted)
31.12.1987 Xmas break
07.01.1988-31.03.1988 Cream Lemon highlights (maybe longer)
There are many LD and DVD rips floating on the web, but all were missing two episodes that didn't go into the various box sets released in Japan, both from season 1. Episode 15 was in one individual VHS or LD release, and episode 36 was TV-only. To make things more complicated, all compilations releases messed up the episode ordering compared to the TV broadcast.
There was recently a wonderful encoding of the DVD-box made by Nightvision on Hongfire, much better than anything else found so far. It was proposed there:
http://www.hongfire.com/forum/showthread.php?t=61687&page=3
He has also made a TVrip of episode 36. I took the time to seperate the clips, re-order them, and found also episode 15. The original plan was to put together the anime PLUS the two albums, since many tracks were used in the anime, but I'm still missing the second album (used for season 3 normally), so I'll keep this or another torrent. Extras include DVD cover art and booklet scans.
Have a good time with the Angels!
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