Cherry Hill Temple: http://people.hsc.edu/students/kayserc/
Cherry Hill Temple is a general information site on the NA dub of Sailor Moon. It is a small, but informative site, with lots of useful info for those who are in the process of getting acquainted with the series. The sitemaster's presentation of the material is quite nice. Not too much time is wasted on eye-candy...instead, the emphasis is on information. One thing on this site that a person may not find too many other places is a transcript archive of the NA dub (minus the last 17 episodes...she's looking for people to help her transcribe those...) On the plus side, the site loads quickly and avoids the easy annoyances, such as pop-ups. The majority of the backgrounds used are simple and pleasing to the eye, and there are no broken links or pictures. The information is well-organized and accurate. There are very few negatives about this site. There are a couple of pages which use a yellow notebook-style background. This may be a novel idea, but it is a bit hard on the eyes. The page uses a frame format that is a bit annoying. (I've been using that word a lot....I hope it's not getting too annoying. :) ) While I generally dislike frames, if they are done nicely, I try not to complain. This one just kinda gets on my nerves after a bit. My solution: try either making a web ring page for the lower right cell, or compose a frame-less version of the page. :) Other than that, the Cherry Hill Temple is a nicely-written page which provides those new to Sailor Moon the information necessary to navigate through the series (even the NA dub), and I have recently found that these sort of pages are NECESSARY to keep new fans from picking up and glomming onto bad information... A quick example before I go... I was checking out a message board and found someone absolutely ticked off about a fan. The writer said that this fan thought Chibusa (or Reeny, as the case may be) was a Scout (Wrong, at least during the dub), and that Luna and Darien should get together. She also thought the entire series was a bit depressing and thought that it was a requirement if one was to be a fan of the series. I was so impressed with the sheer amount of false info this person was carrying that said: "Perhaps a visit to SOS might actually straighten this person out (God help her)." Sites like Cherry Hill Temple would do a much better job and give dub fans a good name. Artemis' Score: 8
Cherry Hill Temple... no, it's not a Rei shrine. It is, in fact, quite a decent dub page. The focus is on information and does the job very nicely. Profiles are complete and interesting, with all characters that appear in the dub(for more than a couple of episodes) covered and covering all necessary bases. Some of the writer's comments are quite perceptive. Perhaps one of the aspects I like best is that despite all the info floating around on the 'net, this person writes only of what is in the dub, and doesn't try to explain things they haven't seen or that don't apply to the characters they're writing of (ie write things for Amy's profile that only apply to Ami, etc). My favourite section was the 'My Word' part, where the webmaster writes one line for each episode and major character, summing up their opinion on them. Well, not always. But it is funny. ^_^ It might seem my mark for this site is a bit high, given that it's fairly small and not fancy but... well, for what it was, it seemed nice and complete in itself. A great information source for the dub, the best I've seen. Luna's Score: 8.5
Diana's Score: N/A Overall Score: 8.2 |
