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".

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.

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.

To cure this, the school counselor orders her to strip in front of the art class and masturbate herself to the point of orgasm.

He invades the planet Rall and abducts its princess in order to obtain a legendary sword called Reverse.

A story of pleasure and horror, where the heroine who devotes herself to rhythmic gymnastics and her two classmates are affected by a mysterious pendant.

A romantic live action film titled Cream Lemon, loosely based on the Ami series, was released in Japanese theaters on September 25, 2004.

Green Bunny distributed the Cream Lemon OVAs across eighteen DVD sets from October 25, 1999, to August 25, 2000.