June 7, 2009

Long time, no see! I've made a few small updates and a few large ones, plus I have more in the works! Let's start off with the bigger updates...

I've recently been working a lot on adding a new interviews section. I thought it would be beneficial to post and archive of various Sailor Moon-related interviews all in one place before they disappear from the web forever, and are lost in oblivion. For that reason, although I have given credit and shown sources for the interviews, I had to post a few of them here without permission from the original people who posted them on the 'net. For many of them, there was no way to get in contact with the original poster (for example, the website closed). For others, I simply never heard back when I emailed the original poster. But I've made efforts to give credit where credit is due. I hope that this will be a useful feature on this site; these interviews are so scattered and I don't want them to be lost forever!

Moving on, I added two new splash pages from the official Sailor Moon website, Sailor Moon Channel. It seems that the new trend is for using older color manga pictures rather than new illustrations. The splash page for May shows this picture from Artbook IV (scroll down to see the part that is used; this is a two-part image!). The splash page for June uses this cute image, also from Artbook IV. I miss seeing the new illustrations, but it's nice to see a revival of the fantastic older work!!

For my smaller updates, I updated the shopping guide and some minor typos and things. Episode 115's images were not working properly, but were updated so they appear fine now. Thanks Sui for telling me! I also improved the search function a little bit (see the navigation bar on the left to search the site). I hope that having the ability to search the site has helped you use The Oracle and find everything you need!

Affiliates & Other Sites

• Codename Sailor Earth over at Moon Sisters has posted a few really cool color pictures of Kousagi from Parallel Sailor Moon, along with an interesting story about how she got them. Definitely something worth seeing! Check it out here.
  
• Both Sailor Moon Obsession and Moon Chase have posted about a new Funimation survey which asks about the possibility of redubbing Sailor Moon in English. This is an interesting bit of news, and it seems to have a lot of people in an uproar!! Opinions are really flying; some people think it's great, and others not so much. The Sailor Moon blogs listed above have excellent posts on the topic, and I encourage everyone to get in on the action by voting in the Funimation survey!!
  
• It's ALIVE!!!! Sera Myu Antics is back!!
  
• Can I go one update without mentioning Moonkitty.net? No, I cannot!! Brad is so active and is always posting something interesting. Lately he's posted a lot of Sailor Moon mobile content, like ring tones and wallpapers. If you're as obsessed with your cell phone as I am, this is definitely work checking out!
  
• Serapii Kisu is still going strong with updates in 2009... mostly with adding doujinshi images, but also adding some beautiful LJ icons.
  
• Moonlit Fantasia has a contest going on where you have the opportunity to win a Usagi wall scroll!! I love contests like this!
  
• Chibi Land is celebrating its 8th year online this month... WOW! Everyone go congratulate Chibi Jennifer on this awesome achievement!
  
• I also added two new links to the links page. If you have your own Sailor Moon site, I will be happy to swap links with you!! The links I added are: AnimeA.net (view Sailor Moon manga online!) and NijmerS Productions (a PGSM music video site).