The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

.::Fly me to the Moon::.

Date Reviewed: March 9, 2005

Category: The Good

Saturn

Alright! A site that looks decent upon first view!

The colors are done in teals and aquas so it is easy on the eyes, with some darker pinkish red text. The problem for most viewers of this site isn't going to be in the layout, it will be that this site is in French. However as I have a bit of French (ok, more then a bit) under my belt, I am fine on this. But however, most people aren't going to be able to do an in depth exploration of this site unless they have SOME knowledge of the language, so I am going to do a lighter review then I normally would.

There is quite a lot of information in the Manga and Episodes sections of this site. However the Screenshots from the eps are not there with an explanation as to why. There is a section called "Sailor Moon BD" however I have NO idea what the BD stands for.

Mythology and Astronomy are both decent sections as well. Nice job. You certainly know your information.

I like the way the character profile are set up. It is nice to NOT see dollbox stats for a change and seeing the little sprites of the weapons and items is great. It adds some charm to the section. Unfortunately only Moon and Mercury are done and Mercury isn't finished.

The "Goodies" section of this site is more then worth the visit. There are all sorts of things here. There are a few broken images in the avatars section, but other then that, there is definately some meat in this site and it is found here.

The Gallery is a bit unfinished. The manga and anime galleries are not there yet with a note to "be patient". The Personal section is cute but I hate cropped thumbnails. And for once I am glad to NOT see the same sprites. That section has some sprites that I have never seen before, which is REALLY refreshing. The last section is of animations and all of these is a different Moon transformation. The good part about these is that they are all timed exactly the same meaning that there aren't frames flashing all over the place, but rather they flash at the same time.

Overall, this site is pretty good. It seems like it still has a bit to go, but it is a good site. Good job!

Uranus

"Hey, you know what they call a bishoujo senshi. . . in Paris?"

"They don't call it a bishoujo senshi?"

"Nah."

"So what do they call it?"

"They call it a "beau guerrier."

Such were my thoughts while trying to navigate through our second-ever French-language page, Fly Me to the Moon. The title and some of the pages are in English, but the text is in French, which makes for some fun times wading through. I'm happy to see that "XD" has spread the globe. We may one day achieve world peace when we speak to each other solely in emoticons. But yeah, I don't speak French. It took me a while to realize that I was looking at some mixed images and not ones from another show called "Divers."

So let me deal with the parts of the site I can comprehend, and talk about the layout. The color theme is beautifully cold, a winter spread of whites and blues, softly blended for a gentle feel. The text, though littered with eye-catching accents and cedillas, is also blended in, and small enough to be completely unobtrusive. In fact, we can just about make it a Rule of Thumb (if I keep writing these, maybe I will have enough for an actual list one day) that text quality on a page is inversely proportional to its size. The layout is consistent throughout all pages and does not get boring. The one drawback is that at 1024x768 there seems to be an awful lot of border space. At 800x600, it looks perfect.

I will give content a try, though you'll be forgiving if I lean toward the image sections of the page. Case in point: my interpretation of the site's image policy is that there is an interdiction against the apprehension for distribution over your site without the author's accord. So unless you want lots more Latin etymology, let's just look at some pretty pictures, OK?

Some of the update sprites are pretty cute, but I've got a thing for all sprites except the soda, so I'm a bit biased. Some of them are a bit hard to identify, and I'm guessing the one is Venus solely by elimination. It could just as well be Michiru. Layouts are here, though none are as good as the one actually on the page. The wallpapers are passable, but the graphic artist seems to enjoy the rectangle a bit too much, a theme which continues in the avatars. Since it's a French site, I might make some pithy comment here about comparing them to Piet Mondrian's neo-plasticism, but I'm sure few of my readers would understand and the rest would take me to task for ignorance. Of much more interest are ID-card-themed signature banners, which may be a bit too tall but are certainly a novel and interesting idea.

Overall it's a nice site, although rather a large chunk is to be displayed as an encore, for which we in our patience are to give mercy (French for "coming soon.") And as the last update was a while ago, not soon enough. But definitely come for the layouts and the sprites. And to test your knowledge of French.

Neptune

This site is in a different language-French so I won't be able to do a full review as I don't speak/read the language. But the site looks nice upon first viewing. I will try my best to figure out what is what.

Layout-Like the layout! Soft blue on white and nothing hurts my eyes. Everything seems to work-link wise. So since I don't see anything that needs improvment-layout wise, I will continue on with the content.

Content-Images, information, fanart/fanfiction, layouts, icons, avies to name a few. *Woohoo! I can read some of this* Pretty standard, yet decent, content for this site. I won't read any of the fanfiction for two reasons. 1) I don't read fanfiction and 2) even if I did read it, I wouldn't be able to read it because it's in French. LOL! But let's see what the fanart has to offer. It opens in a new window and a whole different site comes up. Me thinks this is dedicated to fanart. ^^ The fanart is pretty good but my complaint here is that the thumbnails are blurry. @__@ My fav. fanart image has to be the Usagi/Makoto one (it's the same image being used for the layout)! So kawaii!!!!!!!!!! *ahem* Anywho...moving on! The fanart is something to look at but I wish the thumbnails weren't blurry. Ah well.

The layouts look really good too. They seem to be table format so if you're looking for a table type layout, come here. There isn't much to choose from but they look really good. Other nice things to look at are the avies. They're pretty simple but sometimes simple is best! Although some of the images don't show up so if the webauthor is reading this, please fix the following: Last 3 images of Moon, all of ChibiMoon, last image of Mars and Jupiter, and all of Pluto. I'm sure there are people out there that would like to see these. ^^

Overall Opinion-A nice site that can be navigated by people who don't speak the language. That is my excuse for having such a short review. I can't view some of the things because I don't know what is being said. >.< But don't let that stop you from viewing the images. Quite good. ^_^

Pluto

Ok! I got really nervous when I clicked on this site for a second. Apparently, my Norton Internet Security replaced all the pictures on this site with “NO DIRECT LINKING” pictures. I figured something was wrong. You may want to let people know that for those who have Norton Internet Security, they may have to disable it in order to view this site properly.

Now that I turned it off, this site looks MUCH nicer. ^^ Alright, this is another language…im guessing Spanish or French. I have a little background in Spanish so I’ll see what I can do. I like the name of the site ‘Fly me to the Moon.’ Its kinda cute. The design is simple, yet very effective. An easy naviagation system on its left and updates on the other side. When you put ur mouse arrow on the navigation, it flips the name of that link, which is kinda nice, but it confused me at first. The “Gold Book” is the guestbook, and it seems the forum is out of service.

The Manga section has a brief description of only Manga # 1. The Episode section has episodes up to episode 46, however, only up to episode four is finished. It seems that most of the stuff in the “Story” section is incomplete, so there’s not much to comment on this part.

The fanart is alright, however some of the images are kinda blurry. Its almost like the person took the pictures with a manual camera and didn’t know how to use it correctly. There doesn’t seem toi be any fanfictions here, which is shame.

The Goodies sections has stuff like avatars, wallpapers, banners, icons, ID cards, and pixel stuff. Some of the avatars have broken links. Some of the options, such as Graphic Kit, are imcomplete.

In the Gallery section, anime and manga are incomplete, and there are a few sprites and animated gifs.

Heh….well…this site could be good if the creator finishes up the sites. It has potential, but as it stands now, I have to give it a 6/10.

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