Manga Style! was first published August 8, 1997 as Michelle's Sailor Moon Manga Page, a month after I launched its sister site SailorMusic.net. Both were hosted on GeoCities and created using Netscape Composer and a very old version of Paint Shop Pro. It's adorable how little I knew what I was doing :) This site began as a Sailor Moon manga gallery site and later expanded to include articles on the Japanese manga, guides to purchasing Sailor Moon merchandise online, news coverage of Sailor Moon and other shoujo manga in English (which later turned into Tangerine Dreams, now defunct), and even web design advice (which also got spun off into the now-defunct Astraldream Web-Kit). Manga Style! has gradually become the established and well known Sailor Moon manga resource it is today.
My name is Michelle, and I've been running anime and manga fan sites since university. I started collecting the Sailormoon manga when it began English publication in the fall of 1997 (I created the site a few months before reading the manga). I gradually picked up both the original Japanese manga tankoubon and the English graphic novels, along with the manga artbooks and a slew of CDs [to feed my SailorMusic.net habit]. Although I've gone on to watch many more anime series and read numerous manga, I've only created web sites for Sailor Moon and Magic Knight Rayearth. I also have a Supergirl fan site.
Yes. All images (not design graphics) are free for the taking. They're not mine: their copyright belongs to Takeuchi Naoko, Kodansha and Bandai. If you wish to recommend this site as a resource, text links and link buttons are equally appreciated. If there are any images that I have credited to another web site, please credit them.
Do not direct-link images from mangastyle.net. Direct-linking is using image links on your webpage, message boards, online forums, blogs and journals that point to non-HTML files at my domain. In other words, if you wish to use an image or graphic that appears on my site, do not use code like this:
<a href="http://mangastyle.net/filename.jpg">This is also known as "hot-linking". It uses my bandwidth and is considered "stealing" because it costs me money to host the files on this site. If you want to use an image or graphic from this web site, you must download it to your computer and then upload it to your own web space somewhere and link to it from there. Direct-linking only applies to non-HTML files.
As long as this site serves a purpose, it will continue to exist. Given that old anime is not forgotten, it just becomes cult, Manga Style! will continue to serve a use long after the last Sailor Moon DVD and manga have gone out of print. This site started 6 months after the final episode and chapter of Sailor Moon ran in Japan (although only two years after it debuted in my country) and exists for the enjoyment of all its fans worldwide. The site is no longer updated, but it is maintained.
As I'm no longer updating the site, I don't check my email very often so I might not get your email if you ask to be linked. It's nothing personal - I'm just not interested in maintaining the links list.
This site was hosted by the very generous David Jao from 2000-2004. I used VizaWeb for my hosting from 2005 to 2006 before switching to Dreamhost in 2006.