Cream Lemon 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".
Cream Lemon: Mako Sexy Symphony cover
Hentai is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. In addition to anime and manga, hentai works exist in a variety of media, including artwork and video games.
A wide variety of hentai merchandise is commonly sold in specialized stores in Japan.
A depiction of a male homosexual couple from the January 1928 edition of Hentai shiryō
The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (1814), a well-known example of Japanese erotic art (shunga)
An example of a censored heterosexual hentai illustration