The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Sailor Moon Says: Your Daily Alternative

Date Reviewed: October 5, 2005

Category: The Ugly

Layout & Design

Is the layout intuitive and easy to navigate? Is it compatible across all browsers and resolution? Is it aesthetically pleasing?

Viluy

Damn this site is bad. The layout is simply a tiled background image with a chrome (or some such) filter over it. It looks awful. Usagi with her mouth open isn't exactly the best of images to use, even back then. The site looks totally tacky.

Moving on to the rest of it, there is no coherent site organisation going on here. There's just a bunch of nonsense about a petition as well as some stuff about a banner. I think even for the late 90s, this is almost as bad as they come.

To get to any of the actual content links, you almost have to scroll to the bottom of the page, and with this layout, I can't really see anyone bothering. Given that the site designer/owner was a computer science major, I am really astounded that this site is as bad as it is. Although, if you think this is bad, you should really see his main site. *gags*

The links lead you to....

What are supposed to be funny (?) episode summaries of the various dub episodes. Unfortunately, they're just so bad they are NOT funny. Unless you're a 5 year old kid with below par reading comprehension levels. There is very little web layout design on these particular pages, with only a lot of heads scattered around the page in a vague attempt at humour. Well, mate, I can tell ya it doesn't work. I can't believe people praised it. Maybe they are said 5 year olds?

Moving on, there are more links, leading to....

A very long list of Top Ten lists. Again with no apparent layout design. *yawns* Boring. Next! (I'm surprised Georgia Tech haven't deleted this monstrosity. Maybe said webmaster is STILL (after seven+ years) there? *dies*)

Written Content

Is there lots of written information? Are all profiles, back story, and other textual content accurate? Does the site offer fanfiction or other miscellaneous written content?

Tellu

Written content. Oh boy. I get to read all this crap. I'm thrilled. o.O

The first thing I noticed is that this person has some sort of weird love/hate relationship with DiC. The first thing on this site is a petition to keep DiC dubbing Sailor Moon, but in the VERY FIRST "Sailor Moon Says" bit, it bashes DiC. Can we make up our minds, please?

Sailor Moon Says
Ok, first of all, the whole "Sailor Moon Says" business at the end of the dubbed episodes was just totally retarded. Second, these little blurbs for each episode are even more retarded than the original "Sailor Moon Says." Not only are they completely void of humor (unless you're maybe eight years old, maximum), but they use bad grammar as well. Quote: "Sammy really did it today. He turned Mika into a being of evil incarnate!" What the hell is that supposed to mean? Sammy didn't make her evil anyway... that was all Nephlyte, babe. Alright, I'm sorry, but I can't read any more of this. I'm going to have to move on to the next section before I die of boredom.

Lita Lettermoon's Top Ten Lists
Alright, I admit... "Lita Lettermoon" is pretty clever. Slight improvement in the humor, but it's still pretty bad. There's like maybe one funny thing on each list (if that). However, I've gotta say that "Top Ten Phrases Uttered by Ann in Any Given Episode" was freaking hilarious. But maybe that's just because I'm a huge dork.

This whole thing is pretty lame. I mean, I might have found it mildly amusing when I was much younger (can you believe that I first saw this site when it was NEW?? I feel so old now), but it's just... pretty stupid. There's also a lot of completely WRONG info on here - such as saying that in Manga Vol. 12, Michiru has a baby - that's ridiculous?! Never happened?! I'm sure there's more, but I didn't really wanna stick around to find out. o.O

Visual Content

What kind of visual content is offered? Is it efficiently organized and intuitively accessible? Are all visual media offered legally?

Cyprine

There's no media on this site worth mentioning. And no, super-deformed decapitated heads don't count.

Overall

How does the site flow, overall? What are the wholistic impressions the viewer gets from the site?

Ptilol

Overall elements.... it would help to have some elements here to begin with. *looks around*

Well, there aren't any galleries to look through, no sounds or videos, no bios, or even plot summaries. *continues looking*

Hmm, there are some "Top 10 Reasons Why..." lists and some "Sailor Moon says" things that really aren't very funny and don't make much sense. Other than that, there isn't much else.

There is nothing of value here at all. This site sucks. Plain and simple.

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