The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews
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Layout & Design Is the layout intuitive and easy to navigate? Is it compatible across all browsers and resolution? Is it aesthetically pleasing? |
ViluyThe splash page doesn't set anything out that you would normally expect. It doesn't even make it obvious that it's a splash page with a link to the site. At least not for this reviewer anyway. The artwork is nice, just a bit...big. The main page is fairly basic, with a Power Puff Girl-type figure and a menu of Animamates and other characters from the Sailor Stars series. Not all of them are here, however, but there are some new additions which this reviewer has never heard about. There's also another menu at the bottom which leads to the different parts of the site overall as opposed to the information part. The other site menu pages have the same PPG lookalike, which is different from the information PPG figure. That at least is some continuity. The part that worries me is the fact that although the styles of the pages are similar, there isn't one overall set style to the site, no overall cohesion and continuity. It's rather annoying to look through all the different pages (focusing on the info section) and having different eye-searing coloured backgrounds. Something that might help the site is getting a proper layout in with continuity. It's annoying to have changing pages all the time and not really showing proper webmastery. The information is fine, it's just the page changes that are unsettling and off-putting. |

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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? |
CyprineI'm frankly surprised that I've been given the momentous task of reviewing the written portion of the Tomb of Little Known Senshi. This is one of those famous/infamous sites that most Sailor Moon fans have stumbled across at one point or another, and it's also a great example of how a site with a lot of writing can seem like it's well-informed and reliable while really being not. This site is notorious for its inaccurate information, especially amongst followers of sites like which makes a point of explaining where this site has its information wrong. (Here's Dies Gaudii's guide on the errors in the Tomb of Little Known Senshi. This site has been updated since the webmaster of Dies Gaudii wrote his guide, but many of the errors are still there.). First of all, any site this well known that still has MIDIs playing in the background that you can't control is bad. I'm turning my speakers off so I can concentrate on what is being written. Potentially more distracting is the bad grammar and worse still is the bright yellow on white background that is the Sailor Galaxia profile. Ctrl+A, you are my friend. I know Dies Gaudii does a better job than I do, but here's a list of incorrect information on this site:
I don't know much about Sera Myu so I'm not going to be able to comment on the Myu-specific characters. Beyond the incorrect information, this site seems to think that substituting a well written and concise profile with a boring synopsis of a manga scene will suffice. In many profiles, the webmaster writes primarily useless opinion of the characters and pure conjecture. When facts are included, they are usually listed one after another in badly written and boring prose. Beyond the profiles, which are the most well known parts of this site are a series of articles that are inconspicously hidden. Bonus points for writing a site FAQ. A thousand points taken away for a long-winded and largely meaningless ramble on the difference between illustrations and art, which, in my opinion, makes no damn sense. The webmaster has every right to demand that others don't take the fanart, but this rant on illustrations doesn't make any logical sense, precisely because the fanart is never presented as an illustration in any of the profiles, if they are even referenced in the text of the profile at all. Overall, this site is highly inaccurate, boring, and frankly, relatively worthless as a source of any information. Anyone looking for information on little known senshi should really go to Dies Gaudii or other sites that actually cite their sources clearly and are able to make meaningful arguments as to why they present the information they do. Any site that currently cites the Tomb of Little Known Senshi (and my site actually still includes this site as a reference although I've had to edit most of the information out because it was incorrect) should go back and reexamine their information sections. |

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Visual Content What kind of visual content is offered? Is it efficiently organized and intuitively accessible? Are all visual media offered legally? |
EudialWell, that picture of the green senshi is kinda...scary. She looks like an old lady. ewwwwwwwww. *clicks into site* WOW! Is that a powerpuff girl or something?!? thats just..odd. lol. So, this appears to be a site dedicated to the senshi that made a small appearence during the Stars season. The pictures used for each character looks like fanart. There are no true pictures from the anime. The drawn pictures are actually half way decent. I've seen some really bad fanart in my time, and luckily, this doesn't quality as being bad or horrible. The pictures and such on this site do indeed work, and there are no broken images or anything like that. The only true media in this site are these drawn pictures, so I cannot comment on videos or anything like that. >.> alright...errr, i guess thats it for media. Not a whole lot here, but whats here isnt that bad. |

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