Manga Style! was first published August 8, 1997 as Michelle's Sailor Moon Manga Page, a month after my first webpage (Sailormusic.net). 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), and even web design advice (which turned into the now-defunct Astraldream Web-Kit). It was probably more popular when I had the extra sections, as I noticed a lot of people would mention the web design advice. Now it's back to being all about the manga scans. Manga Style! has gradually become the established and well known Sailor Moon manga resource it is today. As my site expanded and began focusing on topics further from the Sailor Moon manga, I spun off that content into the sister sites mentioned above. This has allowed Manga Style! to stay true to its origins of a comprehensive gallery of beautiful color manga illustrations.
My name is Michelle, I'm 29, and I live in the Canadian midwest in Winnipeg, Manitoba. I've been running anime and manga fan sites for 8 years (that boggles my mind). 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 concurrently, 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. Maintaining those is enough work! 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 a 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.
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