The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

SailorStarlights.com

Date Reviewed: November 26, 2006

Category: The Ugly

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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?

Mimette

Layout! YEA!

However not this one! I had to turn my backlight down! The image on the left is WAY too bright for anybody on an LCD to view properly without hurting their eyes.... Whereas this might work on a CRT it does not for us on LCDs..... please tone it down!

Uhm, ok. That helped. I clicked the biographies link. I was taken to a GIANT table. It supposedly houses the profiles for "All 200 Starlights!"...... I didn't know there WERE 200 starlights.... am I missing something? However there are only a few profiles here and those that work go to a page that has a solid colored background with a table as well as some simple profiles. Very clean and nicely done.

I am glad to see that the background for this site is consistant. It generally follows through the subsections nicely and gives it a calming feeling. This was a good choice. However I made the mistake of clicking the "Earth" link on the main page to be brought to a page greating me with the porno senshi as some of us on the interweb have come to call them. There are TONS of pictures on the interweb of the five inner senshi together... why the hell did you choose THIS one of them all?!

I wish that I could say that the "Earth" profiles were as nicely arranged as the Starlight ones but they aren't. The image chosen for Mercury is literally just a manga cover with a badly done name on the right that doesn't fit in the circle provided..... This pattern continues for the other soldiers with the exception of moon which suddenly gets an artbook image...... I am not sure why nor am I sure I want to know....

I am amused that of the three galleries, the only that seems to be truly working is the HENTAI gallery...... I see why the stripper image was used now.... I don't mind hentai personally. However this gallery is easily navigated by even the simplest of minds and I would personally like to see something on it in the way of password protected gallery or the like since any child could easily find this while looking for sailor moon images....

This site's layout could use a bit of work in some areas. It is rather simple overall and I am glad to say that this doesn't bother me in the least. However there are some kinks that need to be worked out. I would love to see any updated versions of this site in the future.

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?

Eudial

Alright, judging from the title, I think its a [very] safe bet that this site is dedicated to the Starlights from the final season of Sailor Moon. Yep...*nod* So, it is my job to see if the information on this site is actual fact and not full of contradictions and false information. So, I'm going to jump into the biography section first.

O_O Wow, a list of 200 Starlights. Is it bad that I have never heard of these starlights? Well, regardless, out of 200 starlights, 16 of them have bios. I ran some research and I can't find any of these guys, which means that this list was 99% made up. oh dear, how foolish indeed.

The biographies of the Starlights are very bizarre to me. For example, Yaten's back story includes Queen Metalia in it, which is very baffling to me. They aren't even in the same galaxy. Or prehaps, Eudial is losing it? I dont know. I personally think this story is made up. Upon scrolling down, I see they got this from a geocities site. Oh dear. I would have to say do not believe this nonsense that they are calling a background story. The person claims its from an interview, but it sounds too much like a fanfiction.

The White Moon Kingdom... wait, thats a hentai picture. Now, I've seen it all. I am honestly very frightened. Scanning through the bios, I noticed they translated "Chiba Mamoru" to "Local Guardian." I am fairly sure that Chiba means "Earth" and Mamoru means to "to protect." So, this person gets half credit. (I'm feeling generous)

hmmmm, Eudial's brain hurts from this site. I am going to take some aspirins, take a COLD shower, cry in the corner. I really cant say I am fond of what I have been reading.

Visual Content

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

Cyprine

Alright, I'm on media this week, so I'll make a beeline for the Galleries to start with. I have a choice of Starlights, Earth Senshi, Hentai (?!?), Seiya and Usagi, Yaten and Minako, and Taiki and Ami.

So, let's start off with Starlights. Oh joy, it's a page with no layouts and full size images with no thumbnails. Oi, you think thtey would have been at least laid out in size order or something.

Under Earth Senshi, we have a huge picture of Serenity and Endymion. And that's it.

Er...skipping Hentai for now, I'm going to head towards the couple galleries at the bottom of the page. Hmmm...the U&S gallery has some interesting and alarmingly skeletal art, and some other random images, but they all appear to be fanart with no credit. The Y&M gallery has some higher quality stuff, but it's still all uncredited fanart. Not surpisingly, the T&A gallery (er...perhaps that's a bad abbreviation, considering the next gallery) is the same.

*prepares brain bleach* Now, I will admit that I don't mind erotic art at all. However, all the Sailor Moon hentai-style artwork I've seen is less erotic and more OMGWTF-kill-it-with-fire.

All right, the images on the hentai index aren't my style, but they're downright tasteful in comparison to the horrors I've seen. Just Minako and Rei in some sort of transparent bikinis. I think I might be able to handle this. There are no thumbails, just text links, so I don't really know what I'm getting into.

The first victim senshi on the list is Mercury, so I'll see what we have. Nothing outrageous. The second picture is some sort of bizarre combination of a photo of a nude woman and Mercury's anime style head blended in. It's...unique, but not offensive. Oooh, three pics in and I've already hit the virgin-deflowering, non-consentual sex-toy abuse. It can only go downhill from here. Or not, the rest of the Mercury stuff is pretty vanilla after the first suprise there.

Skipping merily through the other galleries, I think we've got every fetish in here, from the fairly common to the truly bizarre. I must say that I'm more than a little disturbed as to what they did to Hotaru. *goes off to clear her browser catch and have a few shots of vodka*

I'm going to pop into the fanstuff section as well, despite the face I have low hopes for the rest of this site. The fanart section has some really nice stuff, but none of it is creditted. Show a little class and let people know who made the stuff you're putting up on your website. Multimedia has a joke marriage certificate (who the hell cares?) and a screensaver that you can download. Except it's an .exe file. I think I'll pass on that, thanks.

To recap, the galleries are horrible, the hentai scarred me for life, and there's no redeeming multimedia content.

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