was an adult ''

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'' and

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magazine published by Amatriasha from February 1982''Comic Box'', Fusion Product, April 1983, p.178 to November 1998 in Japan. The first issue had some

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photographs, but the format of the magazine quickly switched to all manga by the eighth issue. ''Lemon People'' was one of the first ''lolicon'' magazines, with the first issue's cover stating that it "had the monopoly on ''lolicon'' comic content in 1982". ''Lemon People'' was the longest-running ''lolicon'' manga magazine in Japan at the time, this record only being surpassed by Comic LO in the late 2010s. The magazine ran stories with genres that included

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, and

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. Other stories often involved humor and

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. ''Lemon People'' received competition from other magazines such as ''

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'', ''Manga Hot Milk'', ''Melon Comic'', and ''Monthly Halflita'', though none of them achieved the same success. Before ''Lemon People'', adult comics tended to be more dramatic and serious. ''Lemon People'' changed the genre by introducing a more cute style of manga, often with less realistic storylines. ''Lemon People'' was considered the beginning of the "new wave" of lolicon manga. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, there was a growing movement in Japan to censor magazines such as ''Lemon People'' because some viewed them as harmful to young people. By the mid-1990s, the sales of ''Lemon People'' began to drop, and the magazine changed its format to the B5 paper size and reduced its cover price. However this strategy was not effective, and the November 1998 issue was the last one, ending a run of sixteen years and nine months.

Manga artists published

Many

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published works in ''Lemon People'' over its nearly seventeen-year run. Following is a list of some of them: * Shun Ajima *Rei Aran *Yoshitō Asari *

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* Moriwo Chimi *Clarissa *Dragoon *Fukuryū * Knife Senno * Ryū Hariken * Toshihiro Hirano *Ken Hirukogami *Hiro Hoshiai *

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*KAN2O *Kobayashi Shōnen *

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*Nekoi Rutoto (Nekoi Psydoll) *Hikaru Nagareboshi *Fumio Nakajima (the Lolita Anime OVAs were based on his works here) * Ochazukenori *Makoto Orikura *Ruria046

Special issues

Beginning with the 29th issue of ''Lemon People'', some special themed issues started being published infrequently, including two full color mooks for the anime series ''

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''. Here is a short list of some of them: * (issue 29, science fiction, 15 May 1984) * (issue 35, horror, 15 October 1984) * (issue 40, reprint collection of full color art and stories from past issues, 15 February 1985) *''Lemon People'' issues 61, 65, and 70 (1986–1987) are full color collections of original stories & art that deal with subjects like

. * (reprint collection of color art and stories from past issues, cover art: '' Senno Knife'')

Trivia

'' Lolita Anime'', notable for being the first hentai

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, was based on a work published in ''Lemon People''. Nekoi Rutoto(Nekoi PSYDOLL), who had a long-running four-panel comic strip serialized in Lemon People, was a high school girl at the time. To make an appeal, she showed up to the editorial office wearing a sailor uniform.

References

External links

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