Now the real deal starts, well almost ;D

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They look all so tasty, don't they ^o^

Adult anime was born only in the mid-80s, mainly because up to that time there was no market place for them, whether on television or cinemas. There were some experimental works on animation aimed for a mature public, like the "Animerama" trilogy made in the late 60s and early 70s by Tezuka Osamu. But these are not pornographic by modern criteria.

In the early 80s, magnetic tape devices, using VHS and Betamax formats, became more widely available to the public, so production of material aimed for a direct release on that media was economically viable. The concept of Direct-to-video animation, called "Original Video Animation" (OVA) in Japan, started in late 1983 with the first 30 mn OVA called Dallos made by Bandai and Studio Pierrot. Adult anime followed soon after with "Lolita Anime" (sic), produced by Wonder Kids in February 1984. The first two video releases were divided into two stories of 15 mn each, adapted from manga stories of Nakajima Fumio. The third release was a single and longer story with Miu, the first adult anime iconic character (she got two further appearances).

Soon after a new company called Fairy Dust was created, and planned a release of "Cream Lemon". Similar to Lolita Anime, it would be made of two short stories of about 15 mn, put together on a 30 mn video release. The first story, "Be my Baby" would deal with pretty young Ami having fun in the shower while being peeped by her Onii-chan, then doing some ecchi stuff with him (including laser saber penis play and the most dramatic ending you will ever see in adult animation). The second story called "Escalation", would follow Catholic schoolgirl Rie, having some night time finger activities with her Onee-sama, then joined by a third girl for vibrator and licking play, before getting finished off by a strap-on, full lesbo style. A second episode was already on schedule with two other short stories, "Rall" (the same heroic fantasy stuff as we know?) and "I-Doll" (apparently the main theme was rape, no idea what happened to it...). In parallel, an adult movie project called "Project A-Ko" was also under production.

Rumors tell that when they submitted the first episode in this form to the NEVA (Japanese censorship board for video releases), it was rejected because it had "too much sex" (as if it was a problem with the already endless flow of adult live action videos). They had to rework the whole thing, splitting the two stories into separate episodes. The part filled with sex scenes became 'Part B' of each episode, and a 'Part A' with introduction plot (mostly without sex scenes) was added to reduce the sex/story ratio :D. A "Be my Baby" introduction monologue stating that Ami was 11 years old and that her Onii-chan was her 'real' brother was removed (shocking!). Note that the original video editing was released (without the introduction monologue if that rumor is true) as 'Part 0' in 1988. "Rall" was also reworked also as a separate release with a SF setting added (episode 3), The "Project A-Ko" production was delayed until it was revived two years later as a general audience movie. In the meantime, "Pop Chaser" came as an derivative work to some of the staff involved (episode 4). The fifth episode saw the follow-up adventures of Ami, the rest is history.

Apart from this series, years 1984 and 1985 got a flood of adult OVA, most of them involving very young looking females, so that period is often called the "Lolita Boom" era. The Lolita Boom era was not exclusive to anime, it existed on the commercial manga and magazine medium since 1982 (Lemon People and Manga Burikko leading the pack), and in doujin releases since 1979 (thank you Hideo Azuma). Many companies joined the trend, some of them being Adult Video makers, some created from scratch, all aiming to milk pockey money of the adult animation fans obviously. Some labels to mention are Orange Video House (they also released the Guinea Pig live action series) with their Super Adult Animation series, Alice Japan, and Nikkatsu (famous for their Roman Porno movies), teaming up with Uchiyama Aki for the weirdest stories of the era. In 1986 the market became completely saturated with the excessive amount of releases, many being mediocre, and it crashed. Only Fairy Dust stayed on the field, most likely because their works were always above the pack in terms of quality. Despite having a bunch of releases regularly made after the market crash (Urotsukidoji, La Blue Girl, Demon Beast, Guy, etc), the adult animation market was not fully revived until the Holy Summer of 1994 and the start of Pink Pineapple productions, and is being strongly active since then.

Fairy Dust produced episodes steadily between 1984 and 1990, and a few extra ones up to 1993. They have covered many kind of genres and themes you can find in normal anime (romance, school, heroic fantasy, horror, SF, mystery, mecha, magical girl) and many fetishes (incest, yuri, tentacles, hypnosis, SM, rape) though the focus was not on the fetishes most of the time, but on the plot. The list of episodes can be divided into "series" according to release periods:

Original series (1984-1987, 16 episodes) with all the classics: Ami series, Escalation series, Rall series, Pop Chaser, Ikenai Mako-chan series, Star Trap, etc

"Shin" series (1987-1988, 9 episodes) with mostly stand-alone episodes, exploring new fields (and trying to get rid of Ami lol): Madol, Yume Iro Bunny, Etude series, Summer Wind, etc

Ami Sorekara series (1988-1990, 4 episodes) with more Ami adventures, set 3 years after the original series ending

Manga Best Hit series (1990, 3 episodes) with original/adapted work from popular mangakas of the time (Tou Moriyama, Yui Toshiki, Kei Amagi)

Miscellaneous (1985-1993, 6 episodes) with episodes that do not fit in the previous: Ami Image (mostly music video, no sex on it), Sotsugyou Album (extended compilation of the original series), Astalot (a Kazuna Kei special, sometimes put together with the Manga Best Hit series), Zoku Kuro Neko Kan (a follow-up of part 11 set 30 years after), Dark (based on a contest apparently, and one of the longest episodes), Aoi Sei (set in Canada, includes incest and beastiality, what can be worse than that lol?)

In total 38 OVAs were produced with original material, though Sotsugyou Album is mostly made of highlights of the original series. On top of this, a short movie feature was produced in 1986, which was meant to be the conclusion of the Ami plot at the time. Somehow the fans did not like neither the ending (with Ami leaving Japan to join her Onii-chan) nor the tentative replacement as the Etude series, so Ami Sorekara was made as a proper conclusion (with still a kind of open ending). The movie was released as a double-bill with the finished "Project A-ko" work. Both movies have nudity, but no sexual content.