Uranus

Having a fan site dedicated to an actress rather than a character says something about the site. It says that the site is grounded in the real world. It says that the author has a true respect for the hard work and dedication that goes into making any television program, let alone one of the quality of PGSM. And most importantly, it says that there will be lots of pictures of hot young Japanese babes! In this spirit, we view Azama Myuu's Palace.

There are a number of layout annoyances on this site. A bit of status bar tomfoolery with the site's title constantly collapsing on itself is very distracting to the eye. You want people to look at your site, not be pulled away every 10 seconds. Then there is the problem of similarly colored text and background. The text looks more like shadows than an actual font (the front page looks better in Opera, where it's light on dark, but the sub-pages are white on white.).

The information section has the usual facts you'd expect to find about Myuu and Sailor Jupiter. There's also a sort of mission statement, explaining why a shrine to Myuu was built. The major problem I had with this site was in the gallery, where the pictures are presented in slideshow format with some complex Java. Opera couldn't do it and neither could my Java-disabled IE. I don't understand the reasoning behind putting them up this way, unless it's to make them harder to steal or to direct link. Please let this not be a trend because while it's probably quite effective, it prevents honest folks who have an aversion to unneccesary code from seeing the pics.

Moving on, there's a download page where you can get the Sailor Jupiter singles. Never been very impressed with those. The songs, not download pages. Then there's a games page with memory and tic-tac-toe. The memory game is always fun, and it's a way for me to see some Myuu pics. There's also a general PGSM one that's good fun. The tic-tac-toe games are the same type I saw on another page, with the opponent always going first and only losing when you do something unorthodox. You're always Myuu, and you can play against any of the other senshi actresses or against Kikawada Masaya (Motoki). I had endless fun (and by "endless" I mean "two minutes of") intentionally losing to Komatsu Ayaka, who I like better than Myuu.

The last thing other than the site stuff is a fan page, where you can share loving words about Jupiter or Myuu. Inexplicably, wallpapers are here. Perhaps they're fan-submitted to fit the theme. Probably the case, since someone with a webpage dedicated to Azama wouldn't spell her given name "Miyuu," as is the case on some of these. Or perhaps she and Sawai got married.

In any case, it's a niche site with a lot of love, and I really wish there were talent to match (no pun intended. . . talent, Sailor Jupiter, you know--on second thought, I do intend the pun. I want to see that too.). The One Good Thing about this site is that the images are folded nicely into the layout. Too bad they're the easiest images to access.

Neptune

Splash/Welcome-A nice shot of Myuu to welcome our guests! We have the requirements to view the site, as well as the affiliates. So far this looks like it will be a good site! Let's enter!

Layout-It took a few seconds to load due to the transitions but once finished we have a light orange (maybe peach) background and a little darker orange for the text. More on that later. A picture of Myuu is on top with the menu on the left. Every link you click on gives you a new layout scheme-the color changes and it looks like the layout "flips" horizontally but I really like that. If you're confused, just know the menu is now on the right and goes back and forth depending on what you click. ^^ However, there are some pages that don't have the main menu so you need to click the back button. Might I suggest a home button on these types of pages? Just something that may make it easier.

Content-Main portion to view is the gallary and the downloads. The download section only has Jupiter's songs from PGSM. The gallary has images that are either screencaps, Jupiter or Azama as herself. You'll need to turn your popup blocker off if you want to view the gallaries. I like the transition from image to image. Nice touch!

We also have a game section and Fans corner. The games section is fun...Ayaka beat me. ;_; I suck at tic tac toe. LOL! The fans corner offers wallpapers and "messages". Not too sure what that is, but go check it out yourself. That's pretty much it!

Background/text-The main page is a little hard to read because of the color choice. I don't mind the orange background, but the text is too hard to read. Also, the text used for some of the pages is either a light purple or pink and I had to squint my eyes to read what you have. It's pretty to look at, but hard on the eyes.

Improvement-Maybe have a back or home button on the pages that don't have the main menu. Also, the color choices used for some of the pages can be redone so that viewers don't have to squint. Other then that, I like what I see.

Overall Opinion-Myuu fans will like this site as it features some nice work on thier favorite actress. The site has room for improvement in the above mentioned sentences. However, I have high hopes for this site! Please continue to keep the site up other wise you may have angry Myuu fans on your hands. LOL!

Pluto

Azama Myuu Palace. Well, we got a yahoo geocities popup. And it wont disappear for me!!! Evil!!! lol. Anywho..Nice splash page, and even gives some fanlistings and there's a small hit counter.

Weird, when i refresh the page..it brings me back to the splash page... odd indeed. You may fix that as its gotten annoying. lol.

Very nice display, naviagation is really easily located and the updates are in the center. Its seperated into four main sections; info, media, fun, and sitey.

Information, there is basic information about Azama Myuu, PGSM, the reason for the creation of this site, and a little about the webmistress. The background and the arrangement of the site changes w/ each different piece of information. Its different, but the overall idea is uniform.

Media: gallery is a few random piccys of Azama Myuu, Sailor Jupiter, and some screen captures. Out of the screen captures, the last three are not working yet. Point: you should put a "coming soon" sign next to it or something.

The download is one thing...Jupiter's Single, which includes "miracle dance night" and "lovely yell."

Fun: It includes memory games and tic-tac-toe. lol I played it for a little bit, and it was rather entertaining. lol There is also a place for fan mail and a few wallpapers.

Sitey is really just stuff like updates, policies, links, etc.

I say this site is really nice for Myuu fans. good job. But, my only problem was that the constant changing of layout got annoying.