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Layout
I've always had a special affinity towards the sunflower image of Usagi and Chibi Chibi; great layout image choice. The blue background is an interesting choice, but after spending a few minutes on your site, the blue dots became rather irritating to the eyes. Perhaps a solid background would suffice, especially since the main image is already a bright yellow. The blue/yellow dot motif is a cute little touch, I like it. Simple does it! Interactive rollovers are always fun. Navigation is easy to find as well. Overall...great usage of tables, but the layout does hurt my eyes after a while because of the excessive bright color scheme.

Main
Nicely done introduction for the site, remember to spam protect your email address (email@NOSPANdomain.com). Not really sure what the "time remaining till Earth freezes" as anything to do with your site, but to each his own. Spelled "updates" wrong in the older updates section. Seems like everyone these days is making square buttons for their affiliates, I remember back in the day when the idea use to be original. The rainbow effect is interesting, although it doesn't really give each of your affiliates the chance to shine on their own. You also seem to have a lot of affiliates...do you actually talk to all of these people? Or are they all just there for a front-page linkage? In the offline affiliates page you have Star Garden's button over someone else's site. What's the point in linking your offline affiliates if their links don't even work? If you plan to keep their url then try alt or titling tagging it instead of having them all lead to broken links. You only have one site listed under 'my other SM sites' so change that plural 'sites' to 'site'.

Webcomic
I thoroughly enjoyed this section of your site. The humor is lovely. You might want to note to visitors that these comic pages open up in a new window. I especially enjoyed the whole alternative universe between subbed and dubbed. Well done!

Humor
Remember to capitalize "top" in your description of the Top Ten Lists. This was indeed a humorous/interactive section of your site. A lot of this section was dedicated to interesting reads based on Sailormoon. There was just the issue of a variety of spelling errors. A few sections were also repetitive or very random...too random.

Take Over Crystal Tokyo! - is a great interactive RPG, very inventive. I wish it was longer though...the evilness has gotten to me.

Top Ten Lists - The rollover effect is quite spiffy. I'm not sure how you categorized which senshi to go first, but might want to change the order to either who appeared first or alphabetically. In Usagi's like list #5 take out the "she". In Usagi's annoy list #6 spelled "likely" wrong. In Chibiusa's like list #7 spelled "painful" wrong. In Chibiusa's annoy list #4 spelled "Galaxia" wrong. You also use Chibiusa as Chibiusa or Chibi-Usa...might want to stick with just one spelling...although both do work. In Ami's annoy list #3 spelled "cancelled" wrong. In Makoto's like list #8 spelled "definitely" wrong. In Minako's annoy list #5 wrong diction "you're". In Michiru's like list #1 spelled "appearances" wrong. In Setsuna's like list #10 spelled "dying" wrong. There might have been more spelling errors; I basically just skimmed through each of these pages. A few on the likes lists weren't exactly labeled as likes, but as your own commentary on that particular senshi, might want to go over them again. A nice original section, although a few were repetitive.

Sailormoon Remixed - I was not really sure what this section was about, until I actually clicked on the links. It was interesting to find added on bubble quote heads. Your substitutions are quite unique and raunchy.

Laws of Sailormoon - Spelled "aren't" wrong in Laws of Sailormoon. Spelled "mysteriously," "unlikely" in #3 wrong in general Sailormoon. Spelled "immediately" in #7 wrong in fuku, henshin, and stuff like that. Spelled "laryngitis" wrong in Senshi powers. Wrong grammar usage of "it's" in #12. Spelled "Apparently", "aren't" wrong in #14 of physical bodies of the senshi. Remember to add that apostrophe to "what's" in miscellaneous on #32. Again I skimmed through this section and found these errors while reading through all the "laws" so remember to check your spelling! I really enjoyed this section as well, the laws you made up are quite hilarious and voice out all the obvious errors in the anime.

If they dubbed Stars - Spelled "kleptomaniac" wrong. I'm not exactly sure how you thought up the dub names, you might want to point that out (besides Seiya = Amanda). Your random changes for the episodes are indeed very random...I really see no point in this section.

What type of Sailormoon webpage are you? - quizzes! They are always a fun concept. The badges at the end of the quiz reminds me of a Windows box, cute idea.

Damn Huge Gallery
You use the subject "it" a lot in your Damn Huge Gallery introduction. Remember that it refers to the closest previous subject that you stated so watch out for all those its. Spelled "ridiculously" wrong. I liked how each art book opened up in a new pop-up window. The preview and menu idea is a great idea for such a huge gallery. I'm just wondering why the artbook images are not in the order they appear in the art book and that some images are missing?

Special Galleries
Remember to make each title link consistent...capitalize the first letter of each word so that this sub menu will match with your Humor section. This section of your site is very well done. Scanning in images takes a lot of time and you show that you are dedicated to your site.

Warm fuzzy feelings - great scans on the black and white images. I really enjoyed this section, especially the chronological images of Usagi and Mamoru.

The chibi files - Haha, I really had a laugh out of all the chibi images that Naoko has drawn. This is a great compilation of all the Senshi chibi-fied.

Doujinshi scans - Interesting section on Doujinshi. I'm not familiar with the Doujinshi of Sailormoon, it seems like you had a good collection going of scans.

Animated graphics - These are great animated clips. I especially enjoyed the one of Minako, Makoto, Rei, Ami and Usagi jumping up and down looking at the Starlights (remember to add Makoto in your link description).

The Drooling Room - *drools* I really love this gallery; it features all the kawaii bishounen of Sailormoon...especially the almost naked Seiya-kun. Great job =)

Site
Again remember to keep the uniformity with your entire site of capitalizing the first letter of each submenu link. Spelled "screw" wrong under Contact. Capitalize "Then" under Guidelines. Capitalize "Do" under Links and Past Layouts. In Contact remember to spam protect that email address. In Frequently Asked Questions add an apostrophe in "that's" "let's" in question #1. In Credit and Thanks spelled "inspiring" wrong under Bunny of Manga-Angels. A general section for all your site stuff, well done, thank you for making a credit page...many don't realize the importance of one.

Overall
I can definitely see all the hard work that went into the site...from the scanning of the galleries to the great humor section. I really enjoyed your site overall. Just remember to fix all those spelling errors! I didn't even use a spell check, but found all the above by just reading through your entire site. An easy way to check spelling of course is a spell check...so use it!

Moonprismpower.com's Reply to this Review
I just wanted to thank you for the kick ass review. I really appreciate it. *plans to get started on fixing the spelling errors, at least, first thing in the morning* Of all the reviews I've ever recieved, yours has definitely been the most useful!

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