What's Coming to Pretty-Guardian.com?
That's a good question! I decided it was about time to take down my "Coming Soon" sign since I went far past the original launch date. There's a reason, though! I've changed much of what I originally planned for my Sailor Moon fan directory - all in a good way! In the mean time, have a look at what's to come! More updates will be added periodically. Sailor DiamondsA Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (the live action, that is) fan site. This will feature an encyclopedia decked out with people, places, items, attacks/transformations and monsters of the day. Each topic can be sorted into two views: alphabetical or episodic. The encylopedia will be illustrated to make it easier to spot just what you're looking for. Galleries I'm currently unsure of, but if nothing else I will be linking to all possible places where you can get your image fix, if not host a nicely sized gallery myself. The profile section will also contain a ton of information on each senshi - their characters AND themselves (as actresses). This will have a wardrobe section just like in Make-Up! and lots of screencaps pertaining to their attacks/transformations/etc. Sailor Diamonds will also have every episode screencapped fully. I plan on launching with at least half, if not more, of the episodes done and more to be added weekly. Make-Up!
A BSSM resource. This will, of course, be the largest of all four sites in the network. Like Sailor Diamonds, there will be an encylopedia but it will be much more extensive. Each entry will be illustrated with as much detail as possible. Attacks and transformations will have screenshots of the entire attack, for example. Every person/place/item/etc will be found and screencapped specifically by me. Despite this, my focus on this, and all of my fan sites (aside from maybe Infinity, but we'll see) will not be on images. There are a number of amazing SM websites out there with wonderful caps and scans. They've done more than I possibly could, so I'd like to do something different. I will have a wealth of screencaps, but when it comes to scans the galleries I have will be very specific. Meaning if I have a book or game or piece of merchandise that doesn't have much of a scan, I will throw that up. The images will be more by topic. It's hard to explain - but I think you'll all like it regardless. As I said, I plan on having many screencaps focusing on different scenes from the anime that we all know and love. Every encylopedia entry will of course be illustrated, so by the end I'm sure everyone will be able to get there image fix just fine. =) Aside from that, I also plan on having a large "Profile" section that will focus on the senshi (and possibly other crucial characters down the road - we'll see). There will be all the information that I can gather on each, all of their transformations and attacks (illustrated), backgrounds, entrances and a very detailed breakdown of each of their fukus. There will also be a "Wardrobe" section that I hope to have very unique to Make-Up!. More information on that later! Lastly there will be episode transcripts. Not just summaries - but full transcripts taken directly from the original version done 100% by me. These will be slow-coming as they take a crazy amount of time, but I intend on opening with a decent amount of them and then adding one or two per week as an update. Infinity
This will most likely be the last SM website to be launched, as its based on the manga and there is A LOT of material to go through, especially since it's what I'm less familiar with (that will be fixed soon!). Infinity will have a very indepth encylopedia like the previous two sites, profiles and most likely summaries of each act of the manga. I don't have all of the details ironed out quite yet. Makenai
Now THIS is exciting, I think. Makenai will be a Sailor Moon TCG that will be launching AFTER Make-Up! and Sailor Diamonds. It will have 3 weekly updates (all automatic, so don't worry - it's not as crazily time consuming as it sounds!) that center around 3 different groups of games. Each of these groups of games has a theme. One will be the anime, one the manga and one the live action. Games in that group will ONLY pertain to its subject, so there will be some "double" games. Meaning in all three groups there will be a Quote game, for example, where you guess who said the quote provided. However, they will be quotes from their respective subjects (anime, manga or live action). I'm also hoping for coupons to come as "random events" that you get just from using the site/forums, but I haven't actually tried it yet so we'll see how well it works! I'd like to have a unique side quest where you level up as a senshi as well by going through a series of 'quests' that let you progress from civilian to eternal senshi. This has nothing to do with your actual level and is just really another 'game'. You'll be able to level any number of senshi that you want, but can only be working on one at a time. Prejoin is a long ways off, but it's DEFINITELY coming, so keep an eye on the site if you want more information. At some point, I may have a place for people to drop their e-mails if they want a notification when prejoin does actually open. As I said, it will be after the other sites launch. Plus keeping up a TCG is a lot of work, so I don't want to split my attention to much. =)