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Okay....that splash pic is very messed up. The top is cut off and there is a weird black line at the left side. It also takes too long to load. When are people going to learn that MIDIs are bad? very annoying. The frames are messed up. the black line at the bottom is raised. The gray thing at the side has a bit that looks blue. There is a white space line in the middle of her face. There is an unnecessary scroll bar at the right. The email link is easy to overlook, and I thought it was clique. 'stort' should be story.
Info-seeing as I know NOTHING about this character, I really don't know if any of this is accurate. This is all very freaky, so by Parallel Sailor Moon is guess this was meant to take place in a parallel universe. *reads more* gosh this is freaky! I really can't picture this happening...what happened to Chibi-Usa? Crystal Tokyo? O.O oh there....older sister..still in past....ACK! as if there isn't enough confusion in the SM world! It is not a real story, and is just not real. Keep telling yourself that Fishuu...there's no place like home...
Summary should be before the character information. It makes more sense. what is it with senshi naming their children after themselves?? doesn't kou mean light? HA! USAGI LITE! *laughs to death*
Images-I don't like it when there is text that should be a link but isn't. Images take a while to load, and why include the cats? not really needed. I think instead of seperating them, make one gallery page. and make bigger thumbnails, i have no idea what i'm looking at. hey, chibi-usa does look older. I wonder why she wears glasses...not enough carrots???? HAHAHAH-*dies*
man, when did usagi get so..uhm..big? is that supposed to be a sign of age? -_-;;;
Misc-the anime gif is very cute, except keep it on the pic of her human form longer. and less time on the star.
Site-*blinks* this was made two days ago? sheesh! no time lost, eh? hey..she has a WPR...yay....-_- then at least i KNOW you'll link us for our service, right?! there is a bold mistake in the about section. very good reasons. i like PQ Angels too, it's funny.
Other-I looked at her profile in the WPR thing. I *really* dislike people who not only have their own WPR but review somewhere else as well. That's really stretching yourself, and is unfair to the other WPR. I think it's common courtesy to stick to one WPR.
Overall, this is a good shrine. I learned. it made me want to buy that issue. the layout needs work though. ya might as well scan the whole manga.
¤ Once again a useless splash page. The font is unreadable on 1024 x 768 resolition. Graphics could be better.
¤ Damnable music, but at least it's set on stop. Your frames waste a lot of the browser window. You can see where the pictures are sliced and the frames are slightly unaligned. Text is too small once again. The link color and text color are very similiar and at time difficult to discern.
¤ The information you have is very extensive, unfortunatly I do not know much of the Materials Collection and the parallel universe, so I can't comment on the validity of the information. The graphics are well used, and stop this from becoming a text heavy section.
¤ Name meaning is satisfactory, though short, but then again there is not much you can add.
¤ Finally, someone who knows how to thunbnail properly.
¤ I understand it's you first wallpaper (no offense intended, you should see some of my early graphics), but it looks like it's was thrown together hastily? Find someone with lots of graphics experience to make one. Don't neglect those who use 1024 x 768 resolutions.
¤ Ths gif idea is very original.
¤ Good to see you update frequently, but you should list the latest update on the main page to make it easier for visitors to see what is new.
¤ The link button is hard to read; the black text and grey shcemed background blend together. Try contrasting colors. Actually I would suggest scanlining the backgound and glowing the text.
¤ Links section is saisfactory. as is the about/ faq section.
¤ Overall this site has original content presented in a clear format (though not original). With a bit more content and some better design this site has the potential to be amazing.
First thing I’ve got to say is that is looks like you’ve done updates during the review period, and that’s a no-no. You’re supposed to submit your site as you want reviewers to see it!
I don’t know too much about the little imp of a kid named Kousagi, but I’ll do my best with my analysis of this site. I didn’t like the splash image, I think you just took a part of your layout and stuck it on the splash page because you were too lazy to create an image. Kousagi is a rather drab name for the site, but luckily the name itself provokes a lot of interest for people who don’t know about this character. The layout was all right, but there were a few gaps between the pieces that should be fixed up. I like how you had a unique reason for the midi on your site. I also liked the fact that you could choose to play it and it didn’t play the song over and over again once you started it.
You should add ALT text on all the pictures including the ones in the sections that aren’t devoted to images. First thing you say in the characters section is “Kousagi is Usagi's first daughter” (this would mean that Kousagi’s older) then later on, under Saturn and Chibi-Moon you say, “Chibi-Usa is Kousagi's older sister” (this would mean that Chibi-Usa’s older). This made me very confused; you should straiten out who is the older and who is the younger sibling. In the summary section you spelled Kousagi like this “Kousagui”, I’m sure it was just an accident though. You also had a few slight spelling and grammar errors in other areas. You had nothing overly mistake ridden though.
I don’t understand why every time I want to see a picture a download/open box appeared. You really need to fix up the fact that the pictures do that whole download/open thing, because then the pictures take forever to view! I’m glad that you have a small FAQ section because I’m sure that many people have questions surrounding Kousagi once introduced to her character for the first time. I also liked your commentary on the materials collection of Sailor Moon.
I really liked the animated gifs, they were so kawaii, I loved them! The pink head wallpaper was all right considering that you only had a short Manga to work with. I’m flattered over your opinion of ‘I Review’!
Overall:
Your layout was all right considering everything you had to work with, but you have to fix the gaps in your layout and get a better splash image. Your information was short and to the point, but it didn’t have to be any longer because this is a shrine to such a minor character. You should work on getting your pictures to open in a new window without the view/download box. There were a few spelling, grammar and capitalization errors, but not too many. I liked this site it was short and concise but the way you described the character and Manga were perfectly understandable. I liked surfing on this site.
From,
Kaioh Michiru
If one must know, while I'm writting this, I'm scanning a comic book onto my computer so I can edit it, and put it together properly.
Splash - Cute, manga drawing with pigtails.. It's Chibiusa right? Evil. EEEEEVIL. Although cute, just like every other splash page (except NR's which tells you the whole site is G-rated, and go here for IE, and here for netscape) totally useless. I think I forgot to mention that on the other review I did.
Layout - Hmm, guess I was wrong, Chibi-usa only as two carrots, not four. (Carrots, my term for Chibi-usa's bunny odangos) Quite a cute black and white layouts, alothough it doesn't line up properly for me. I have this problem a lot (usually with my layouts) and normally it comes from editing a picture, but not fixing the layout to deal with the edit. Fix-fix needed [It's the midi, puts out the layout]. Oh? A side story? How interesting.
Le Informazion - I have trouble seeing how people could mess this one up. "The Information" is the only thing it could be. A nice little setup, you at least know how to use a layout properly. unlike far to many people I could name.
Characters: You know, I do believe I started to read the tranlated manga of this (online) before stoping because it was so weird. *snickers* Whoo! Mamoru got bagged by Naoko! I like this section, comes off quite a bit better than any other character sections I've seen before. Summary: I bet that kanji says 'Parallel Sailormoon', ne? Heh heh, that's a cute little summary. Gives some information, but not all of it. Name meanings - There's only two, and they are rather straight forwards... Materials Collection - Seems a little useless to me, but hey, it tells where to find the Parallel Sailormoon manga. The cover of the Artbook also helps, for those of us setting forwards to actually find it. (personally, I'd rather have a Trigun one, but that's my latest obession. Go Vash!) Parallel FAQ - One question... with an amusing answer. Bold text, waii! So I'm a bit hyper... sue me... no wait. Don't.
Galleria - The pictures are sickeningly cute. Definately Naoko's work. I aint going through them all. Pictures aren't really my thing.
Misc - Wallpaper: Again with the digustingly cuteness with absence of guns, swords, or blood. How does Naoko do it? *snickers* Animated GIFs: *laughs* I like the tripped one! Betcha editted a Usagi one, ne? It looks pretty cool. Fanart: Those aren't really fan art...
Site - The general stuff that we all know: I don't bother with. The layout is put off by the midi. The pictures are far to cute for this gun-loving maniac, but hey, to each their own. Actually, it's a very nice site, and I'm just joking around due to my Trigun obsession.
Layout- Hmm. The layout's pretty nice, but the orange "Kousagi" title graphic doesn't seem to fit the black and white theme. Otherwise, it's very cute!
Coding- Yay! You have a player for your midi! *gives you a cookie* And I didn't find any broken links, either.
Organization- All the links are self-explanatory and nothing's out of place. Excellent.
Content- Since I've never read Parallel Sailormoon (sniff), I can't really check the accuracy of your information. But it sounds good, and I like how you include a lot of information. For your name meanings section, the characters' names don't really "mean" Rabbit of the Moon and Beautiful Child of Love. The names are puns because they sound like the words that mean those phrases. Check out Ian Miller's site (http://www.uwm.edu/~antares7/index.html) for more info. It's really nice that you have a miscellaneous section for such an unknown character! Try to expand it even more.
Mechanics- Make sure you remember to capitalize the beginnings of sentences so that your writing flows better. Actually, check your capitalization in general. Sometimes you don't capitalize proper nouns.