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The Reasons Why

I am one of the "veteran" Sailor Moon fans of America. I watched the Sailor Moon DiC adaptations as a young child. I learned about the original Japanese version as an older child. I discovered the third season entering adolescence and eventually was fortunate enough to watch it through fan subtitles.

Through this journey I encountered many Sailor Moon pages that ranged from general information, character shrines, media sites, fan art galleries and fan fiction archives. They in turn ranged from very little information to a treasure trove of it. Simply put, Sailor Moon pages were a dime a dozen.

When year 2000 hit the early Sailor Moon websites of the mid-90s began to fade. While it was sad to see them, it wasn't a terrible loss. Most of them had very little information, out-of-date image sizes and formats and mainly focused on the DiC adaptation. At most, it was the nostalgia they could produce that would be missed.

Most websites after that were relatively well made character shrines. Using .ccs files became more common, layouts were more elegant and a lot of work was put into content and information. Obviously a lot of passion was put into these webpages and they were like works of art, really. I loved exploring them and learning all I could.

Around 2010, however, these sites began to dwindle off as well. Many character shrines that impressed me have been taken down. Art galleries are disappearing. Fan fiction Archives are a thing of the past...

I understand the reasons why this is happening. Many fans are adults now. They have lost interest, have nothing more to contribute and/or don't have the time or money. Then there is the changing of the media and the Internet.

Anime and manga are no longer an obscure thing you can only access through other fans. It is now part of American pop culture. There are now companies that will translate manga, subtitle and dub anime. There are pirating manga sites that archive millions of scanalations done by "scanlation groups" that pretty much allow people to read manga for free. Internet stores will import items from Japan for you.

General information sites are no longer needed when you can now go to Wikipedia.Org and wiki any information you want. Art Galleries are no longer needed because there are huge anime sites that host high quality scans of various series. Fan art and fan fiction archives are no longer necessary because there is now DeviantArt and Fanfiction.Com...

So why make a character shrine?

I'm a sucker for nostalgia. I miss those websites and am sad to see them go. At the same time there are things that are no longer recalled because of the disappearances. History was my favorite subject in school and the journey of bringing Sailor Moon as well as anime in general to America has been a long and winding road.

After a little under twenty years, Sailor Moon is finally coming to America the way it should have a long time ago. At least, that is the hope of the fans. In 2014 Viz Media has taken up the task to bring the entire anime to American fans completely uncut. They will try to subtitle it faithfully and dub it with voice actors selected by the creator of the manga, Naoko Takeuchi.

Still, I want to remember all that happened before this. There were inside jokes, controversies, fads and misinformation galore. There were web pages full of energy, because fans were thrilled by their discovery of the anime. There were web sites full of passion, because they wished to share all their knowledge with other fans...

And so, after the fall of many great web sites, I have decided to make a web shrine to my favorite Sailor Moon character. My character shrines are not the works of art I saw in the first decade of the Twenty-First Century, but I think they have plenty of content and reflect the years that have passed.

While everything on Nyxity-Lee.Com is for my own personal interest, I like to think the character shrines are also for the people who lived during the 1990s era of anime and manga.