I dont know why I feel compelled to write this as my one and only anime review. Lemon Angel is a bizarre 37episode ecchi series serving as a few things: a spinoff of the greater Cream Lemon hentai series an advertisement for said hentai series sharing some similarly lascivious content and also an advertisement for the up and coming idol group by the same nameLemon Angel. I get the impression that it served as an early influence for later crossover promotional media for idols. The idol group themselves had some nice tunes to their name several of which serve as the background music here both in their original albumrecording form and in arranged forms sans vocals. I think this is the basis of a lot of what makes this odd series fascinating to me: the songs often lend any given scene an entirely different /feeling/ from what it might have conveyed without that music becoming bittersweet or joyous at times that are so illbefitting that it leans into the surrealor in other cases making some of the more exploitative scenarios played for titillation and/or laughs mind a bit more eerie. Probably not on purpose. The bulk of the content itself consists primarily of the anime alteregos of the idols themselves voiced by the actual idols of course sometimes to very humorous effect being thrust into oddball erotic scenarios many of which they of course protest. Train groping bizarre noncon scenes sexual dreams come to life everyday love stories and some strange bouts of outright surrealism and/or slapstick gags. The animation itself is limited indeed with many selectively still shots regularly including entirely nonanimated dialogue scenes. Its another aspect that seems to lend the whole series a very strange and hypnotic quality at times. 220https://files.catbox.moe/jhju0i.png Pivoting back to the eerie quality that this show conveys to me at times: its full of very Japanese sexual cliches and there is a casual nonchalance about it that reflects its age especially. The girls are compliant in these horny little vignettes and often casually narrate over scenes seemingly unaffected and unbothered by the almost insidious nature of its sexual content to everyone involved its all normal enough. The slightly plastic yet wistful sound of the pop songs to which these scenes are set frequently recontextualizes the very strange casual attitude of the series in a somewhat unnerving and always fascinating way for me. I genuinely enjoyed this because I get a kick out of its charming 80s visual style and I get a kick out of its charming 80s idol musicand in simple terms thats exactly the goal. But to me its also a strangely captivating little time capsule that reflects some uncomfortable social ills. If youre not as weird as I am you will not like it nearly this much but godspeed if you are.