Uranus

Brevity is the soul of wit, says the Bard, and if that is true, than Nagaraboshi may be the chief advocate of that philosophy in the PGSM site world. Beautifully efficient, the site manages to pack in lots of information about the series without requiring that you spend hours there to get it. Neither condescending nor esoteric, the site assumes the reader has some knowledge of the basic premise, and is in need of details or materials, not complete help.

In the information section, there are little one-page blurbs of the acts. Sadly, only the later ones are done. Each one includes the author's opinions on the act without fear of argument. Throughout the site, the author's stamp reigns, and it's made clear that no one else could have written this exact site. It's so refreshing to read a site where the author is saying what they think, and not what they believe people want to hear.

The graphics and multimedia sections continue the trend of cleanliness and efficiency. There are screencap pages, but none on the episodes, only on some of the ancillary PGSM projects. In other words, not what would be found on every other site. Icons and wallpapers are here, all by the site author, who I'm hoping will enter our next contest, because it's this kind of brilliance-through-simplicity that we need.

Above all of this, however, is the layout. This site looks like one that you would pay a lot of money to have developed for you. The neutral whites and beiges make the pictures stand out, and the pictures themselves are neither obtrusive in the page nor taxing on bandwidth. And the small squares and minimalist graphic fonts give the whole page the modern, clean look one wants out of a computer or software product.

So, if you're a page viewer like me, then probably check out this site for entertainment. But if you have any aspirations at all toward web design yourself, then definitely check out this site for inspiration.

Chibimoon

Ok, lets see what we got here ::opens page:: “Nagareboshi: your source for PGSM.” The color is a nice off white and its smoothing in its own way. This already looks like a good website, everything has its own little place. The updates are easily found in the center, unless the viewer has an IQ of under -6. hehe. The left side shows thumbnails of the five main actresses playing the senshi, and under that is the navigation.

The Show:
In this section, it gives a brief history of the show and how it started up. It also shows all the actors and actresses plus a brief bio of each of them. The only problem I see here after viewing this section over is that the actors of the Shitennou are missing. We can’t have a PGSM site without the Shitennou, right?

Episodes:
This section contains the description of the episodes plus a review. Out of 49 episodes, there are only 8 episodes able to be accessed. I liked the owner’s reviews and descriptions of the episodes so keep at it. ^^

Information:
Shows the covers for the PGSM DVDs and CDs. Also tells what songs are on what CDs and provides a link to a place where they can be purchase. Awesome. I like convenience. Same even with episode download. Nice!

Imagary:
Shows pictures of the five main actresses. A good amount of pictures too, except for poor Mew-chan and Keiko-chan, whom are still in the single digits. What I like here is that, if the viewer reads, the word ‘rules’ will bring them to the rules page of the site. Good move!

Interaction:
Awards that the creator received and such. I like how they put the level of difficulty it took to obtain that award.

Multimedia:
A collection of avatars, wallpapers, and a music rotation. ooooo, I like the Nephy/Motoki avatar. Hehe. After I’m done here, I gotta ask for permission to use it. ^_^

Nagareboshi:
A series of links that give credits, other sites, staff, contact, rules, etc.

After reviewing this site, I have to say its pretty good. I enjoyed my stay at the site, and I shall definitely return to it again. ^_^ This is Chibimoon signing out.

Pluto

Breakdown of site 80/100

Welcome and site Identity 7
- Very classy look, easy on the eyes and the layout is simple yet stylish. The pale blue-grey on white is a bit hard on the eyes after a while tho, might wanna consider making the text a smidge darker and a little bigger. I can't see small text very easily...

Navigation 8
- Very common sense navigation with good organisation and comprehensive list.

Content of Interest 6
- The cast bios are standard, but the addition of each individual's personal/official home pages is a nice touch. The Shitennou bios are missing however. The site overviews don't begin until Act 39 but the classy way in which they are presented, with a summary of screencaps as well as an episdoe summary and rating makes it that much more interesting than your standard screencap/narration format. A lot of the info appears to actually be missing so far. It looks like the site is still under construction somewhat.

Advertising and sponsorship 5
- Advertising for sites that provide merchandise is great, but maybe more advertising of your own site would be helpful. I do like the fact that you are not settling for just any old links though.

Self-promotion 6
- A good link list with respected sites but only one affiliate. I hope that you get more to come, with sites equally as respected. Don't settle for anything less than the best.

Filler 6
- There's a lot of unusual filler on the site - the merchandise info, the cosplay stuff, etc. but I like it. As with the rest of the site, it's presented in a tasteful, well ordered manner. The link to Ruth's commentary needs to be fixed rather urgently as the site has been changed for some weeks now.

White-space 6
- Rather a lot more white-space than there should be, but I anticipate that will change with the addition of more content.

Other 6
- The site is well designed in my opinion, just lacking in content. The text size is a bit too small for me and colour-wise, it's too light as well. Some of the information that is here isn't very interesting to me, but it may be to those who are interested in that sort of minutiae.

Saturn

Alright, I have seen this site before, and I just realized that it has a rotating main image. By that I mean that if you refresh the page, the main image will change. I like that, and wish I knew how to implement such a gorgeous layout myself. It would definately add to the appeal of Pocky Box, so on that note.... Author! If you have the time, please teach me how you did this gorgeous and simple layout. It is easy on the eyes and overall just beautiful.

Enough gushing now, on to the actual content.

Unfortunately the Act Overviews aren't done. There are very few of them here and I am a bit disappointed about that, but hopefully they will eventually go up. Ruth's commentary is currently down as it is on a broken link.

I am happy to see the DVD List as I haven't seen this on any site to date. Nice idea. The Music Info is also nice to see. Also I am rather glad to see another site with the Download information as there are a lot of sites about the series, but very few that tell you where to get it. Good job!

I have to admit that I am a bit disappointed in the Imagery category. The author admits that they Cast Galleries are scavenged, which is alright, but I was hoping for something different or at least something from their own stash. The Screen captures are alright, but I can do them myself. Oh well... can't win them all.

The rest of this site is kinda generic. Overall this site is a good, but I would like to see some more original content. It is kinda tiring to see the same things over and over...