Man, was this a bait and switch! I expected a shoujo anime about idol hackers; I got a fanservicey CGDCT anime. All the mysteries involving Yui and the disappearing idols are resolved in an infodump in the middle of the series. Occasionally you'll see some cool flip phone designs, and the idols have a futuristic-looking tour van that appears once or twice, but that's it as far as the cyberhacking or this show being in the future go. The rest of the series is pure moe filler with some occasional idol concerts and fanservice scenes. None of the characters are well written; they're cardboard cutoutswith different backstories and traits to differentiate themselves. They don't even have personalities! It's like watching a painfully unfunny, deliberately boring version of Hannah Montana! Because this series was made before Kyoani's rise to fame, the series attempts to incorporate J-Drama elements involving the idol industry on top of the moe, albeit unsubstantially and for a fake sense of story progression and tension.

What's interesting is that this series ended up predicting two huge anime trends before they went mainstream: this is a slice of life idol series before Aikatsu/Love Live/etc made that genre big, and the main character is a blue-haired girl with long ponytails! A time traveler must have come back to 2006 to make Lemon Angel Project in hopes that Radix would claim the successes of Hatsune Miku and Love Live for themselves!

Even though this is a Radix anime, it sure doesn't look like it! There are no weird uses of CGI except for a single CGI light rig, and the coloring is far less saturated and the characters don't have weird reflective skin. This series just looks like a regular, poorly preserved 2000s anime, so not even the visuals are interesting.

Even though this is the type of story and series that would appeal to little girls, this is made for grown men! It was aired in a programming block, Anime Spirits, that mainly specialized in fanservice anime, including Godannar and Radix's Divergence Eve and Heretical Love Hour, and eroge adaptations, including Radix's HaniHani, Wind: A Breath of Heart, and Comic Party Revolution. The anime is a homage to the real life 1980s idol group Lemon Angel, best known for creating TV tie-in shorts with Cream Lemon. Indeed, this seems to be the flagship of an attempt Radix was making to reboot Cream Lemon, since in this anime, the main character's VA also plays the (separate) main character of Radix's Cream Lemon OVAs. And, fun fact, this VA, Ryou Shihono, took on these roles when she was 15! And as part of a promotion for the Lemon Angel Project anime, the producers launched a podcast where Shihono would read letters from viewers, including lewd ones! Yuck!

Lemon Angel Project is trash of the highest order, which I only remember because the songs are so darn catchy. WATASHI DAKE, MITSUMETE YO- stop it, earworm! So, enjoy the songs on Youtube, but avoid this creepy snoozefest of a show. It's a shame, because this could have been peak 2000s Fruitiger Aero futurism and a decent shoujo series at the same time. Even if you're a Radix completionist, you won't get anything out of this.