Lemon People

was a sexploitation hentai manga magazine published by Kubo Shoten<!-- 久保書店 --> from 1981 to 1998 in Japan. The first issue had some gravure idol photographs, but the format of the magazine quickly switched to all manga by the eighth issue.

Lemon People predates the lolicon manga boom in Japan in the 2000s, and was the longest-running lolita manga magazine in Japan. The magazine genre including science fiction, cyberpunk, space opera, fantasy, and horror that was common world wide, While the stories were serious, they often were described as humor and parody. Lemon People received competition from other magazines such as Manga Burikko<!-- 漫画ブリッコ -->, Manga Hot Milk<!-- 漫画ホットミルク -->, Melon Comic<!-- メロンコミック -->, and Monthly Halflita<!--月刊ハーフリータ-->, 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 releastic storylines. This is primarily due to aging baby boomer generation who were raising children of their own at the time. 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...
Read More