The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Ashita no Wings

Date Reviewed: March 16, 2005

Category: The Bad

Pluto

WOW!!! Pink!!!!! Not the best color in the world for a webpage. errr, not looking too good so far. Ok, "Ashita no Wings: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon." The sites updates are in the center, with the other stuffon the left and right sides. Well, some pictures do not work on the mainpage. I thought it was my Norton Internet Secrutiy acting up, howeverthats not the case, as i disabled it and refreshed the page. Last updatewas 3 days ago, so this site is pretty active. Good.

The links on the main page are really close to the color of the main page,so it makes them hard to say. I would advise either changing the linkcolor or the background color...or both.

Whenever clicking in the multimedia section, its much better. There is alighter pink as its MUCH easier to see the links. There are image usepolicies, avatars, banners, videos, wallpapers, and winamp skins. The avatorsarent bad. The Zoisite one with the piano made me laugh. The banners are started from Act 14 and randomly goes downward. There's a pretty good amounthere. I've seen some of these on other sites, but i liked the custom ones.In the video section (OOOOO pic of Chisaki!!! ::falls over::) lol. Im back.Music Video...nice description of each and good selection. I dont care enoughto download them all and view them, so i'll assume they are good. :-PThere are a small amount of wallpapers, and a 404 error in the winamp skinsection.

In Fanfiction, there's a 404 error in the Anime-Based section, and one chapterof a story in the PGSM section. There are also 404 errors in AlternateUniverse section and the Non-SM/Original Section.

Reviews sections...404 errors.

Spotlights section...all 404 errors.

Im back to the home page..amazingly, all the problems w/ the first page thatI mentioned before have corrected themself...errrr...ok! lol.

ALRIGHT!! since the webpage corrected itself, all i have to say is this is sitethat has a lot of portential. Just get something in those 404 error sections, andyou're good to go. ^^

Saturn

I have actually seen this layout before. However it was with Keiko Kitagawa instead of Azama Mew. At least this author acknowledges that they didn't make the layout but rather changed the image. That puts their standing up a notch on my scale. However everything here is laid out beautifully and is easily navigated.

Ok, I clicked the first link and the image changed. Nice touch.

Well the Multimedia section is decently sized. There are dones of avatars and banners. There are wallpapers and videos and a broken link for Winamp Skins.... but I gotta say this. I am not perfect and a lot of my work in Photoshop sucks, but I gotta say that these creations are a bit more then bland. I didn't find anything that I was horribly impressed with to be honest. However I am not here to critique graphics but review a website. I trudge on.

I don't read Fanfiction, so I have just tried the links ofr "Reviews/Previews" and both are broken links.

Spotlights it is!

Ok, that was a GREAT disappointment. Not a single link worked. The only section left on this site is the links section. There are some decent links on here but I amd sad to see "SereCindra" in second on the list. (That site is an eyesore and does NOTHING for the community but teach what Frontpage is capable of screwing up and how to steal from everybody that comes near you.)

I am going to guess that this site is still being worked on so I am just going to give advice like this.

I hope you get your site together soon as it has potential but is far from being viewable currently as there is nothing here.

Uranus

Once again, it's a site mainly dedicated to images, on the theory that you can naver have too many avatars. Ashita no Wings (is the "no" part of the Japanese part of the title or the English?) has many designed graphics, and claims to have fan fiction and reviews, but broken links abound. Still, everything is set out in a pretty pink layout with a picture of a different PGSM actress in a cute outfit atop each page, so perhaps the images will be worth seeing.

The lead item on the menu is the site's policy, which demands credit for use, meaning that looking is all I'll be doing. Maybe it's just I, but I don't want to have my graphics ruined with an admission that I didn't make them.

Avatars are the first true page, and most of them are fairly decent. The designer has a knack for choosing appealing pictures, especially when they are from without PGSM itself. Not all of them are great, as some are too bright or too dark. So long as the picture is outside in the Sun or inside a photo studio, it seems to work best. What really cooks here is the text, though again there are exceptions. The most important thing the designer has done is to stick with simple fonts, the kind you would see in books, or perhaps such with a touch of embellishment, but nothing garish or scribbly.

Banners are the site's main thrust, and again it's the text that shines. There is the occasional detour into cursive scripts, but mostly the fonts are perfect for the extended sentences here on the banners. It's much more refreshing to see that than another cryptic "eternal romance" or "moonlight love." Is every single banner great? No. There are too many for that kind of consistency. But there are enough that it's an interesting walk through the series in pictures.

There's an AMV page, but there's not a single song here I know, except for the Sailor Moon themes.

So on we move to wallpapers, and here the "hot babe" theme from the layout is continued. There's a good bit of fan service here, including a nice top-down shot looking down Sawai Miyuu's bra. Lucky camera.

Unfortunately, there are many other pages linked, but few of them are there. It's a very nice 404 graphic though.

Neptune

Layout-(This layout is from DreamyStyles) Really nicely done with your main menu on your left and 'bookmarks' on the right. But it only stays like this until you click on a link (on the left). There's a transition process when a linked is clicked on but it doesn't hurtthe site at all. Anyways, once the transition is over the menu on the left stays but the bookmarks are gone. I like the conceptof this. Good job there. Everything works like it should and I don't see anything that can be imrpoved layout wise so I willmove on to the content of the site.

Content-We have avatars, banners, wallpapers, winamp skins, and music videos in the Multimedia section. There are alsofanfiction based on the Anime, PGSM, the 'Alternate Universe' and there's 'Non-SM/Original' works. Since I'm not an avid fanfictionreader I am going to skip that little section. After that we have 'Reviews/Previews' and something original entitled 'Spotlights'.I'll get to that in just a moment but first I will go over the multimedia portion.

Multimedia-Avies, wallpapers, skins, and MVs oh my! Kaaj_Si (co-owner) is widely known for her beautiful avies and banners.I have never seen her wallpapers before but I must say that I am jealous. ^^ I love what she has created and I hope she can give me pointers.The avies and banners are just as cool (sadly the skins are not up yet). My fav banners have to be from Acts 14, 42, 44, and the Customs. *Isjealous again...* Another notable feature are Music Videos made by Kaaj and Apple Pie. I have yet to watch one of their videos but I hearthey are top notch. One of these days I will download and view one for myself. So there's a nice varity of Multimedia to choose from but I mustcontinue on!

Spotlight-The most original idea I've seen on ANY site, 'Spotlight' is an interview section to say the least. Kaaj interviews various webmasters/webmistresses and they're quite interesting. They are definatly worth your time!

Reviews/Previews-Neither of these links work. I know that when the site was on Freewebs, these worked so I'm hoping the webmistresses canbring these over. They were interesting as well.

Overall Opinion-A beautiful site to say the least. Lots to choose from to either watch or read. I really don't see anything that can be worked on(minus the obvious 404 links. >.<) and I wish both webmistresses the best of luck finishing their site!

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