Behind the scenes

I'm still plugging away at the music section. Slowly but surely it's shrinking down to a more manageable number of songs.

While I haven't done too much in the way of visible updates, I have actually added cast profiles for Endo Yoshito (who played Zoisite on PGSM) and Kubodera Akira (who played Kunzite on PGSM). I'm trying very hard to stay focused on the music section, though, because for once I'd like to have something pretty much finished when it's posted on here. ^_^;

Minor Updates

I've been doing little updates here and there to make some general improvements, nothing too extensive. But I did finally add a basic page for Act Zero, The Special Act, and Kirari Super Live to the summaries pages of the live action section. These were a long time coming, and I apologize they weren't up sooner.

I also added a couple more basic pages to the anime summaries, but nothing too exciting. ^_^ I'm hoping to have that section done well, better, anyway, before new year's. At least get the basic info up, but we'll see if I achieve that goal. My work schedule always picks up in the winter time, and I'm still busting my butt for other sections of the site...

Speaking of which, I've still been busy working on the music section behind the scenes. It's slow going, I have exactly 200 songs left to catalog (which gets more extensive every day I think.. "oh! I should put this information on there, too!") So I'm about 1/3 done with it. Which isn't too bad, considering. I'll be excited to have it completed, because I really do think it's a pretty unique guide.

PGSM cast info & gemology updates

I added in two cast profiles today, one for Masou Jun who played Jadeite in PGSM, and one for Matsumoto Hiroyuki, who played Nephrite in PGSM. I managed to dig up some info on them that isn't on most sites, so I was pretty pleased with myself.

I also added some information on garnets to the gemology section. ^_^ More soon.

Behind the scenes work

Lately I've been immersed in working on the music section for the site. It's shaping up really nice, and I haven't seen any other sites with quite the same idea. Those of you who are really savvy may have noticed that the character pages in the PGSM section have the image songs linked up to the new section. I also linked up the first two musicals to their songs as well, but although it's moving rather quickly it's still probably several months away from completion (there are honestly just so many songs).

The main music page won't be up until it's completed, I've decided, but if you're really chomping at the bit you can take a look at this page for one of the musical's songs to get an idea of what the feel will be like. Enjoy! ^_~

Little Updates

While Hitsuji has been slaving away on the back-end, I've been working on getting some of these sections finished. It's slow going, but it's actually happening. This site is huge already, and it's probably only half done! @_@; Rest assured that Hitsuji and I had a long dialogue and we're both aiming to be the best, most complete Sailormoon site on the web! (even if it takes a long time to do it!)

The first update is obvious, isn't it? I changed the banner up. This one is a little more artistic than the last one was. Brushes used to edit it come from Beautiful-Sin.net.

Today I also completed the information for Sailor Saturn's Myu actresses. This is extremely good news because it means I can start working on the side characters and the enemies next. Why is that good? Because updates should (theoretically, anyway) go a little faster in that section because there are usually a lot less actors and actresses to fill those parts. Not only that, but those are all the kind of parts that aren't in every single musical, which automatically cuts down on the number of actors/actresses.

In the past couple days I've also done a little bit of other editing and additions. First, I finished the cast information for Sugimoto Aya (Queen Beryl in PGSM). I also added two new, higher quality animations for the magic section - Rolling Heart Vibration and Tuxedo Power from PGSM and the anime respectively. Hitsuji is trying (trying being the key word) to get a list or at the very least a handle on all the names for the different items (the manga says one thing, the anime another, Bandai says a third, then PGSM gets in there and it's different... you get the picture) as well.

Overall there is still a lot of work to complete and the site in general is an ambitious project. Wish us luck, everyone!

Odds & Ends

Today I've been working on small updates here and there. I was originally trying to make a new layout for the whole site, but despite designing three new ones I didn't like any of them (or they just weren't very practical on a large scale) so I decided to put that project on hold a bit. I'll get back to the shrine layouts in a little while, too, though they are much simpler to design and execute than the main page's layout (which has a surprising number of restrictions...)

What I have done today is added in what little I've completed of the anime summaries to the site. I also made a profile for Kuroki Mio. Finally, I added in the cast information for Koike Rina, who played Sailor Luna on PGSM. With those tiny updates came a few smaller updates with them, but nothing major. I'll try to get more done soon, but I've been pretty busy lately.

A Tuxedo Kamen day... [8/9/09]

Today I added the casting information for both Shibue Jyoji (who played Tuxedo Kamen in PGSM) and the cast information for all the men who played Tuxedo Kamen in the musicals.

And, just for kicks I updated Sailor Neptune's profile.

That's all. More soon.

Back to normal and Updates (8/7/09)

So after about a week of dealing with the google malware warning (which was a hacking incident -- see below for details-- ) for about a week, Hitsuji managed to persistently contact Google to get rid of the message. She finally prevailed today, so I could re-upload the website onto the new host.

I'm also in the midst of making the profiles more user-friendly and updating the images so that they are a lot better and (if possible to find a decent shot) full body. This will probably take a little while, however, because each new sailor's profile has taken me about an hour to finish. Enemies should go by a bit faster, though. So far, Moon, Chibimoon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Venus. The directory for the profiles is also a little more streamlined now.

I also added in the casting information for Ayaka Komatsu and Alisa

I also completed the summary for Act 3 of the live action series.

Minor cast updates [7/25/09]

I added in the cast information for the actresses who played Sailor Neptune in the musicals. Also, in the PGSM section, I added a cast profile for Azama Myuu.

Tankoubon Completion, working on the PGSM cast pages (7/17/09)

I decided this deserved a new post. The tankoubon section should be completed tonight (I will have lots of free time to fill, so this shouldn't be an issue as the only volume left is 18!) The next piece of the manga section to be complete will probably be a section for the shinsouban or perhaps one dedicated to the Mixx translations. These aren't major priorities, though, so it could be a while.

Meanwhile, I've been working on putting together some information about each major cast member in Pretty Guardian Sailormoon. So far, I've completed pages for Sawai Miyuu, Hama Chisaki, and Kitagawa Keiko. I'm going to try to get at least the sailor senshi cast member pages updated quickly.

Re-tooling the tankoubon section (7/14/09)

Edit 7/14/09: I finished another volume, so it's just 15, 17, and 18 left. I took a bit of a break from the manga section to polish up the PGSM summaries. I've added teaser text to the ones that are complete summaries and linked the important plot points to their relevant pages. And, believe it or not, I have been working on the awaited anime-summaries (behind the scenes, of course) that project will likely not see completion for a long while yet, but rest assured it is being worked on.

Edit 7/9/09: The tankoubon section is so close to being completed I can almost taste it. At this point, pretty much every page in the magic section (except Sailor Luna's) has been edited and corrected. All that's left now in the tankoubon area is Volumes 14, 15, 17, and 18.

From 7/7/09: It isn't completed yet, but from volume 1 through volume 6, the tankoubon section is being re-worked with links in the text so you can visually appease your curiosity. First mentions of characters are linked up with their profiles (if there is one yet), so you can learn more about the character and attacks and items are linked up to images to show you what it looks like. This should make it all very user-friendly and resourceful for you guys. ^_^

A side-effect of this was adding in some stuff in the magic section, specifically some of the missing page numbers for Sailormoon, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Tuxedo Kamen.

There is a massive amount of behind the scenes stuff that I'm working on right now, including anime summaries and some of the sections that are incomplete as of yet. Please continue to be patient!

PGSM Updates, Site Editing (6/9/09)

Pretty big update this time. I spell-checked and edited the entire site. I'm sure I missed a couple things, but over all the site should be more consistent and correct. That doesn't seem like much, but spell checking every single page on this mammoth site took a long time, actually, and I'm glad it's done. Now I just have to make sure it stays that way.

The PGSM section has been updated as well, I added in a page for Tuxedo Kamen's items in the series, as well as a page for Luna's items. The bigger update for this section is that I added (complete! For once...) a character page that tells you some general information about each character in PGSM. It is certainly not as in-depth as the profiles are in the main section, but it is more tailored towards the live action and does include some information that isn't on the other profiles. I even made some cute lil' PGSM inspired sprites to go with that page, which was a project in and of itself.

PGSM, Magic, and Updates (5/21/09)

Today I completed the summary for Act 2 in the PGSM section. It's an important act- the introduction of Sailor Mercury.

I also filled in a bit of information on Sailor Moon's Magic, most notably working on some of the stuff in the anime items section.

New PGSM Summary, minor design correction 5/6/09

I recently noticed that the links in the PGSM section's design were flawed (not matching up with the rest of the site) so I corrected the css file and the html so it looks a bit more coherent.

Also, the complete episode summary is up for Act 43 now. It isn't a main act, and really isn't super-important to the storyline, but I wanted to watch it again and thought I'd better get some work done if I was going to. It's one of my favorite episodes of the series, it's very angst-ridden and romantic, too... but not super-important to the series and could honestly be skipped if you just wanted the meat of the story... oh well.

Myu, Profiles, PGSM Update 4/30/09

I added a page for Morga (the first youma) to the Profiles section. This is (somewhat) of a bigger update because it means the template for creating the youma-profiles is made and I can (theoretically) make more youma profiles faster. I guess we'll see on that. I also did some updating to a few other profiles, including linking up an attack from the musicals to the pages of Tin Nyanko and Iron Mouse. The main list of profiles has been updated to include all the youma, cardian, and droids as well as their episode numbers. The only monster-of-the-day lists that are not complete are for the Daimons and Lemures, and hopefully that will be remedied soon. I also added in a few characters I'd missed from the musicals. I still have a few more to add at that, but I'm having difficulties figuring out where to classify some of them (such as the Dracul vampires). I guess I may have to make a new class for them.

I also added a new about page for the SuperS Kaiteiban musical in the Sera Myu section.

In the PGSM section, there is basic information for every episode of the regular series, as well as a screen cap of an important event in the episode. Summaries will follow when more of the bones are laid out, but there is a full summary for Act 1 available now. I plan on updating the summaries starting with the bold/important episodes, but they are very time consuming to write and edit, so please bear with me.

Other than that, I've been bouncing around different tasks. Today I've been working a little bit on the PGSM character section, but the update I'm working on is big and may take a while to get published onto the site. (Don't want to post it up here when it's half done, after all...)

Myu Update / PGSM Update 4/24/09

More goodies for you all. I added a summary for the Sailor Stars Kaiteiban (Sailor Stars Revision) musical. I also added the basic information for that same musical, both up in the Musicals Section.

I also put some basic information up on the Pretty Guardian Sailormoon section of the site regarding the series as a whole. It is a decent sum-up of the series; how it is different from the other incarnations of Sailor Moon, etcetcera.

I've been quite the busy-bee lately and I have more stuff that I'm working on, but as of right now it's not completely finished so I'm not adding it quite yet. I can't wait to get it finished so you all can see it!

Update 4/9/09

Well, I've been sick for a couple days... which is bad news for me and my paycheck, but good news for you. Since I've been stuck in bed, I've been re-watching PGSM so I've finally updated that section. There is actually (gasp) content up there now! Enjoy. So far, it's just a listing of magical items that were used in the series (there are three characters left to finish that up completely, but it's 90% there, so it's not bad) and then I'll work on the other stuff I've started for that section.

Other sections have been corrected and/or added to (like the magic section or profiles on the main page) as I've noticed new things.

Hopefully soon there will be more updates to that content.