Eudial

Yes, since this claims to be an encyclopedia, all my sailor moon question should be answered. ANd if they arent, well...there we are. lol

Ok, layout..ummm well...the site's background has a tiled picture of some stars. Its a very small picture so it tiles quite frequently. Im not very fond of a tiled background. I feel it to be a poor design, and it shows a lack of creativity and knowledge.

The banner picture is fine, i guess. The yellow text for "ultimate" is a bit annoying as yellow on the computer screen is just...wrong. There is also a large picture of the full cast of Sailor Moon. Its not a bad picture, but I feel it should placed somewhere else.

The text links are VERY simple. Like, its right out of "Lesson 1" of any HTML book. I'm not fond of text links, personally, because I don't think an overwhelming amount of them in one area does a site justice. And in this case, its all text links.

So, there u have it. The layout background is uniformed, but thats pretty much it. Nothing special about this site at all.

*Pulls out Eudial's Death Buster gun and shoots this site*

Cyprine

First of all, this site is not the ultimate Sailor Moon encyclopedia. For that, you should really visit a different site, perhaps one webmastered by one of the current roster of witches. But who it is I'll let you decide, but only because I'm a huge fan of that site, I shall have to say now that I will be just a wee bit biased in this review.

Well, the site makes my life easier by telling me exactly what the goal of the site is: to be "an indispensible guide to the entire Sailor Moon Universe - both the original Japanese series and the North American dubbed version - containing detailed entries on every person, place and thing that has ever appeared in the 200 episodes of the show, not to mention in the specials and the movies". Good, now I know what I should be looking for.

The site is set up alphabetically, so if you click on a letter, you get various entries related to the SM universe. However, a lot of these entries are meaningless spellings of the same character's name and all of them require an extra click-through to get to the meat of the encyclopedia, rather than having some information be available right in the actual encyclopedia. Though this can get unwieldy if each letter's page contains many entries, for such an incomplete encyclopedia, it would be helpful to have some reference as to who these characters are before you click-through, just to make sure you're not completely mistaken.

(At this time, I want to take a minute to complain about FortuneCity that keeps trying to bump me out of the site onto some cityscene.shtml page. I don't know why it keeps doing that, but it's annoying. So, I would suggest switching out of FortuneCity when you can to keep from aggravating your viewers).

Since I'm not terribly familiar with the characters in the letter A, and tempted by the fact that Cyprine is highlighted as the last entry in the C's, I click on the Cyprine entry.

Now, the information is set up pretty well, with a basic profile of information that includes more than the usual dollbox stats (although there aren't really dollbox stats for Cyprine). I like how the Japanese katakana for the names are included where appropriate, and though this makes the text extremely dense and difficult to read, I also like how the webmaster highlights what isn't known about Cyprine as well as what is. I don't like how Ptilol is suggested to be Cyprine's twin sister, since I'm of the camp that believes Ptilol is Cyprine's shadow.

Skimming the Cyrpine information, the rest seems more or less accurate and appropriately objective for an encyclopedia. Good job there. I click on a few other entries and they seem to be in order. I'm also happy that humour is inserted not in the entries themselves but as humorous captions to the screencaptures.

Finally, the encyclopedia does a good job of including detailed information on many obscure monsters of the day and villains, and this will probably be its primary draw for most viewers. There is, I'm noticing a heavy S bias in the content, however, which would be best fixed.

My main concern is in the scope of this site. The site actually offers information primarily on villains, most likely because this is what the webmaster has had time to do. It's a good resource, but the webmaster should narrow their scope to making themselves a villains-only resource -- this would allow them to concentrate on what this site is already doing very well. I noticed that the site actually has no entries for any of the main good guys, so this would also solve that problem as well.

Lastly, the site should get a better design. I know this has nothing to do with written, but the piss-poor layout and design elements detract from what could be a great informational resource.

(update: Tellu, our resident information expert has let us know that a lot of the information on this site is inaccurate, so obviously, take everything you read on this site with a grain of salt.)

Mimette

There was no multimedia on this site, so Mimette got bored and left.