The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Beautiful Senshi

Date Reviewed: November 28, 2005

Category: The Bland

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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?

Ptilol

Hello and welcome to another adventure with me, Ptilol. Today's adventure is the layout. Let's get started.

Looking to the front you'll see a nice splash page with a simple image and the neccessary requirements for viewing the site. It's kept clear and simple, as a splash page should be.

Proceeding onward, we come to the main page which features Galaxia. The image is very nice and not one I've seen before. The colors go well together and don't hurt the eyes. The text is easy to read. The navigation and title font is a little odd, but still readable. Overall this layout is decent, but doesn't make me go "wow, that's a great layout."

Well, that's all for today's fun. I hope you enjoyed yourselves.

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

Well, this site has a lot of information for me to wade through! I don't see many typos, but there are a few here and there that need to corrected.

Info: Good Guys
The first thing I noticed in all these senshi profiles is that this person has chosen to list the "name meanings" of all the senshi. This is one of my biggest pet peeves, because these "name meanings" are wrong. Ami Mizuno does NOT mean "Friend of Water," for instance... the Kanji in her name do NOT represent "friend." People who list these name meanings make it clear that they just snatched all of their stats off of some other website, without even bothering to look up the original sources themselves.

I see a few things wrong in the profiles. First of all, there are NO such people as "Eternal Sailor Mars," "Eternal Sailor Mercury," etc. Their uniforms look like Eternal Sailor Moon's in the manga, but they are simply called "Sailor Mars," etc. Some attack and item names are wrong, such as "Eternal Tier" (should be Eternal Tiare) and "Shabon Spray" (should be Sabao Spray), just to name a few. Going through the whole list would be exhausting! Some attack names are even left off of the site, for unknown reasons.

This person seems to insert personal opinions along with facts. For example, she asserts that Sailor Mercury is the weakest senshi, which is an opinion. She also says that ChibiMoon has better attacks in the manga than anime, which is also opinion. The webmaster also jumps from manga to anime, Japanese to North American information. Which is it?? Pick one! They are each very different, so it's important to make a distinction. All in all, I'd say the writing style here is very immature.

Info: Bad Guys
The profiles of the villains are roughly 1-3 sentences long, which is all too short!! MANY of the villains' names are spelled incorrectly here... Berthier, Xenian, Pharaoh90, Queen Badiane, the Amazones Quartetto... just to name a few! This section is pretty useless, especially with all the wrong names.

Info: Season Summaries
Another useless section. The summaries themselves are poorly written. Although this person says that she doesn't want to give too much away about each season, she actually tells readers EXACTLY what happens. Spoilers! This section also uses tons of wrong names.

Goodies
The only written content in this section consists of the "Sailor Moon Questions" section and the "YKYWTMSMW" section. The latter is the SAME old thing that can be seen on any outdated Sailor Moon site. The "Sailor Moon Questions" section was not even written by the webmaster, so I won't discuss it.

Misc
Wow, I think I lost a few brain cells reading this section. The writing here is VERY immature, and the opinions seem to be, as well. She essentially says that she doesn't like Ami's character because she feels that Ami is ugly, and that she likes Galaxia because of her hair. Right. Because appearance is the only thing that matters?

In some sections, the writing on this site seems to be ok, while in others, it looks terrible. I think that this person needs to mature as a writer, and correct all the factual mistakes on the website. I also think that opinion and fact should be kept separate at all times!

Visual Content

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

Eudial

Alrightty, judging from the picture on the splash page, it seems that this person knows what are doing in regards to the HTML department. So, it would seem logical that will be able to get all the media links to work. As for the content of the media, well, no amount of HTML knowledge can help with that. One just needs to know what would be cool to have on a site. Lets see together. lol

Alrightty, first part...lets look at the profiles section. What we got, in the media department is a small thumbnail of the character and a link to a picture of each item they use. Like, for example, Sailor Moon as ALOT of items. It also has a picture each of the character's forms. Now, that sounds odd. What I mean is what, for example, Tsukino Usagi is Sailor Moon, Princess Serenity, Neo-Queen Serenity, etc.

A very large amount of the senshi I couldnt see. Seems those arent done. >.< On the enemies, the enemies just have a thumbnail and a brief description of them.

Now, onto the Art section. From the name, i thought it was for a section of fanart or something. Its just a gallery. The pictures in here are a collection of thumbnails. These, obviously, are clickable and can become a larger image. Mars Venus, Chibimoon, and starlights in the Anime section do not load up for me. And Venus, Saturn, Chibichibi/Cosmos, Starlights, Amazoness Quartet, and Death Busters in the manga section don't work.

The Wallpaper in the goodies section has some wallpapers that I have seen on many a sites so there's nothing too special here. The site also has a music section, however the selection isnt that good. Only 4 songs. Not that the songs arent good, I'd just prefer to see more selection, ya know?

Ok, in regards to media, this site is ok. Lots of sections in the gallery didn't work so I am a bit disappointed with that.

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