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Story: 7/10
Art: 9/10
Sound: 9/10
Character: 5/10
Enjoyment: 8/10
Overall: 7/10

First of all I'd like to get this out of the way; THIS IS PORN. The characters and plot are all there as a set up to sex. This being said, if I only watched it for porn why would I choose to watch Cream Lemon as opposed to millions of videos on numerous websites of an unsavory nature? The reason is that this is much more than porn. With unique and strangely appealing storylines, fantastic visuals, and good audio, Cream Lemon has become a classic of all anime, not just of the hentai genre.

That being said, during the ... sexually explicit scenes, some of the fetishes (especially the bondage in the Escalation series), can be a bit overwhelming and detract severely from anything that makes this show anything but pornography.

I have only seen the first 16 episodes however, because these are the only ones available (that I could find) with English subtitles. Also this series may prove difficult to obtain and I was only able to find it through torrents.

Cream Lemon is an episodic show with new characters and different settings in each episode with the exception of a few multi-episode series. The stories surrounding each episode are extremely varied ranging from science fiction (Star Trap and Pop Chaser) to World War II era Japan (Black Cat Mansion) to pure fantasy (the Rall series) although most if not all of the other episodes feature some aspects of school in them.

The animation in Cream Lemon is superbly done and even looks good today despite being created in the 80's. The motion of characters is generally fluid although there are many sex scenes which do not always hold up to this standard. I would like to draw specific attention to the animation in "Black Cat Mansion" (episode 11) which was simply spectacular and brought out the story in very vivid detail. The only episode which was particularly unappealing in terms of design was the first episode of the two-part Mako series in which faces were just plain ugly or expressions were animated rather lazily.

In general the music was enjoyable and featured many piano pieces (especially in the escalation series) but also had some guitar stuff and, of course, had porno music going on during sex scenes.

I can't really say much about the characters being exciting or anything for the most part as their primary function was to lead to the sexual encounters between themselves and others. Almost all of the characters were pretty one dimensional. Some characters are enjoyable due to their personalities or due to the inherent humor of the episodes.

What I enjoyed most about Cream Lemon and watching it episodically were the differences between episodes. Some could be very funny and a few made me LOL a few times (Pop Chaser, Star Trap and Narisu Scramble). In some of the episodes the plots were so surreal in fact that you could even laugh at the premises of them even if the episodes themselves were not explicitly humorous.

Others had decidedly good plots despite being only to facilitate sex. An example of this is the Ami series which, if there were no sexually explicit scenes, easily comes off as simply a drama, albeit possessing a plot which involves an incestuous relationship. Another is the Rall series which focuses more on action scenes (scenes which did NOT involve sex) and in my opinion had less focus on explicit sex even though there were several scenes in which it did surface. This is about a village being attacked by a great evil (who wants to violate the women obviously) and a mythic heroine who must save them.

Overall this series is worth watching once and I feel that at least one or two episodes would be appealing to the average male (I doubt females would have any interest whatsoever). Thank you for reading :)

Story: 7.5/10
Art : 9
Sound: 9
Character: 9
Enjoyment: 8
Overall:8

Well this is my first review and I have just finished watching all 3 episodes of Straight Jacket.

Story:
... Although only 3 episodes long I believe the story, at its most basic level, was flushed out quite nicely. Yes, of course more details could have been given to fully explain the relationships between characters, especially that of Reiott and Filisis, but for a 3 episode series, I cannot say that anything truly important in terms of the continuity of the show.

I can't say I truly enjoyed the ending as well, as much of the story was wrapped up very quickly but then again what can I expect from 3 episodes?

Art:
For a modern show the animation is pretty standard. This anime is much darker than most I have seen and the dark scenes really bring that aspect of this show to the forefront with the exception of any scene with Reiott's house which is used to help bring forth the concept of redemption which the show centers about.

Sound:
Mostly rock-type songs are used in the show and one specific one in the 3rd episode that really stands out. Nothing really bad about the music and the sound effects during the action scenes were pretty standard.

Character:
For only 3 OVA's, there was plenty of character development. The viewpoints of Reiott and Kapel Theta regarding redemption changed in much the same way, although I was unimpressed at how all it took to change Kapel Theta's view was a one sentence line from Filisis. Isaac was a strong character who displayed a lot of emotion and really was the main person one could identify with.

Other than those main characters however, I disliked most of the other characters especially Mary. Mary really didn't serve much of a purpose in the show except for whining in one specific scene.

Enjoyment:
On the whole Straight Jacket was a very well done story. The action scenes were not all that action-packed, but it was more of the thrill factor that made it enjoyable nonetheless.

Overall I would recommend this anime and suggest you watch all the episodes in one sitting. :) enjoy