The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Sailor Obsession

Date Reviewed: June 04, 2006

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

The site opens with a very simple splash page. It tells the requirements, has the page title and an interesting rotating banner that advertises a site for a book about how Japan is reflected in Sailor Moon. *smiles and nods* Sure, ok...

*clicks enter*

The main layout is done in varying shades of pink. The darkest is used for the border/open space and lighter pink is used for the content areas. The focal image has also been done in a pink version of greyscale. It's a cute image of Sailor Moon hugging a rabbit plushie. Headshots of the other senshi have been put together and placed to the left of her. The navigation is also very easy to find and use.

That's about all I have to say. I think the layout looks nice and the colors used go well together. *hands the webmistress a Kudo's bar*

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

Yay, written! Well, the first thing I see here is that there aren't many typos, and everything seems to be written well. That is absolutely fantastic! I hate sites where I can barely get through two sentences without just giving up over the grammar mistakes. First, there's series info, which is pretty much just summaries. These contain a lot of spoilers, so the webmaster really needs to state that!! A lot of people read summaries to get a general idea about something before they watch the actual series. VERY FEW people read summaries of season AFTER watching the season. Honestly, I don't know why people write these ridiculous season summary write-ups with way too much information in them. Generally someone looking for information on a particular season will need more specific information than can be provided in a short summary like this.

Next, there's a section about different terms used when talking about anime. This is a useful section, but it really needs more. Only six terms are currently defined here, and only three relate to Sailor Moon. I'd like to see more related to Sailor Moon here.

Profiles! Everyone has profiles on their sites. This site is showing the basic dollbox stats, including a short introduction to the character and attack names. This sectin is pretty straight-forward. If the webmaster wants to expand it, I'd suggest manga information, item information, and definitely getting up profiles for the other characters (Tuxedo Kamen, the Starlights, Luna, etc). Pictures of attacks or links to even animated GIFs might also be nice here.

Next, there are a few minor section. The blood type section is very small, but I like how the info is presented on a graph. I think this section needs to be expanded with more info on the individual blood types, or how each character fits that blood type. Moving on, there is a section on the "rabbit in the moon" legend. I love this legend, and the picture the webmaster has used to illustrate it is very cute! However, very little here actually came from the webmaster - it is all taken from other pages (with credit, of course). I would really love to see something original information here. Also, I think the information on the Mayan legend should be removed. It obviously wasn't involved in Naoko Takeuchi's ideas for Sailor Moon. I think that on a lot of websites, authors just search for things that are barely related, to have something to add to their sites. The Mayan legend really isn't relevant, although it IS a similar myth. It probably wasn't used in the creation of the series, however... I'm sure it's just coincidental.

The section on Naoko Takeuchi is very nice, and provides a bibliography of her other series. The seiyuu section is also very nice, with small pages (containing pictures) on each of the seiyuu. Here, I think it would be good to add information about some of their other very notable roles. A lot of the seiyuu are much famous for their other roles than they are for Sailor Moon.

The image songs section basically just lists the image songs for each character. Sounds would be nice, but the section is interesting nonetheless. In the Sera Myu section, I'd really like to see more information... perhaps about actresses, the music, the stages, etc. Right now, it shows only a brief intro and some links. I want more here!

Well, this site looks pretty good! Lots of written information is always nice.. keep up the good work!

Visual Content

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

Viluy

In looking over this sites media, I found so much stuff, that I doubt I can cover it all completely without writing a novel. However I am going to try anyways! :-)

The first place to stop by is the Galleries Section. Clicking on the Galleries link takes you to a menu of sorts that is rather nicely laid out. You can choose which senshi you care to see pictures of and the links give both the "civilan" name and the senshi name! After choosing your senshi, you get taken to another page where you find thumbnails of the that particular senshi. Most of the pictures range from their civilan form to their senshi form and from the anime to the manga pictures. For the most part there are not a whole lot of pictures, but enough to satisfy. As for the pictures it's clear that most of the ones listed are ones you can get from around the web already, but always worth the effort to check it out!

The next section is under the Obsession Page. Here you can do things from polls to contests, to fanart and cosplay. There really is a ton of things you can do here. Each sub section has it's own description of what each link is primarly about. The Fanart only has three pictures, but again everything is neatly laid out, with information on each page!

The next section is called Omake and there are just more places here to visit. However a few of the links didn't work. Like the graphics page or the coloring page. But there are other things to check out like the tic-tac-toe, Jugsaw Puzzle, Postcards, Sailor Moon Clocks and Sailor Moon Quotes!

The other sections to check out are the polls and the forum. They make for great interaction and gives viewers a chance to particupate.

All in all, the media here looks rather good. Though the site looks like it hasn't been updated since April of this year, it still looks rather well done. Very well organized and extreamly neat! I give two thumbs up!

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