Staff

Elly is the creator of Miss Dream and a work-a-holic extraordinaire. She has two full time jobs: by day she works for a Japanese semiconductor firm; by night she's a mother to her three year old son Zachary. During the wee hours of the morning and lunch breaks, she's an avid fan of Sailormoon who is usually translating one thing or another. Her responsibilities around Miss Dream include:

• Translating print-media releases
• Organizing staff / networking
• Obtaining raw materials for translation
• Paying the bills / Keeping everything running smoothly

When she isn't working on Miss Dream, working, or parenting, Elly enjoys cooking, gardening, and reading. She's a huge fan of Russian literature and collects the works of Vladimir Nabokov. Elly also loves word puzzles and anagrams. (Incidentally, her first name is an anagram of the phrase "Real One") 宜しく！

MarioKnight can be considered the janitor of Miss Dream, but really he's the co-administrator. He is often called upon to fix messes up at the last minute and generally respond to Elly's panic attacks. He uses his management expertise and decade-plus web & networking experience here to:

• Fix whatever Elly breaks (this happens a lot)
• Edit and proofread print releases before the shoopers do their work
• Organize staff assignments and critique assignments before final projects are released
• Edit and proofread video scripts before the final encoding
• Bring drinking hilarity to podcasts

Outside of Miss Dream, Dan B can be seen and has some sort of influence on a variety of Sailor Moon sites. Most known for running Sailor Moon Uncensored, he is also a "secondary administrator" to a few other sites, and has contributed articles to other sites. Outside of the Sailor Moon Online Community, his hobbies include being awesome, hanging out with his friends, outdrinking yet maintaining better control of himself than them, playing DDR and Rock Band, and maintains a variety of other interests.

Wednesday got into Sailor Moon when a friend of hers started watching the show when they both were 12. At the time, she was convinced it looked like one of the dumbest things ever. Annoyed that a friend of hers could possibly like it, she decided to watch an episode herself to find fodder against it. Two days and three episodes later, Wednesday realized that it was time to own up to liking the show herself. Now, as she enters her late twenties, she still hasn’t quite gotten over her love of the show. Having studied English in college, she now is happy to work as editor for Miss Dream. Her duties include:

• Reading each and every word with an excruciating amount of detail
• Finding inconsistencies and ways to make the translation flow better
• Making snarky comments about plot points and the characters’ fashion senses

When not nagging everyone to correct their grammar, Wednesday works full time at an undisclosed location somewhere in Southern California. Her hobbies include: writing, web design, knitting, hunting for dead bodies, and watching way too much South Park.

Dragonicsoul, or, as people off of the internet know her: Sammi - a former lurker of the Sailor Moon Fandom, she has taken up editing images for Miss Dream. While she has fuzzy memories of watching the anime as a child, her start in the franchise came from reading fukufic-themed fanfiction. With the discovery of all that is Moon-themed, she hasn't looked back since. Her duties include:

• Graphical Design
• Light editing
• Being hardcore and taking on insane assignments when asked

Her other hobbies include videogaming, drawing, and the occasional bout of writing her own fanfiction. She's not really a plushie, but likes to pretend. Humor her.

Yen is a 21-year-old professional bum from Pennsylvania, equipped with a graphics tablet and a copy of Photoshop CS3, and is ready to change the world with one stroke of her digital paintbrush. While she doesn't have any professional credentials in graphic design (Which she hopes to change in the future), she has been doing it as a hobby since the age of 15. She first discovered Sailor Moon in 1998, at the tender age of 8 and hasn't looked back ever since. Due to her love of Sailor Moon and graphic design, many of her duties at Miss Dream include:

• Cleaning manga scans
• Lettering and Typsetting scanlations
• Being the resident Sailor Moon Encyclopedia

When not being obsessed with Sailor Moon, Yen can be found obsessing over Dragon Ball (Or both at the same time as she is an avid fan of the Sailor Moon/Dragon Ball Crossover genre). Other anime she enjoys includes Hetalia, Azumanga Daioh, Rurouni Kenshin, His and Her Circumstances, Cardcaptor Sakura, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Yes! Pretty Cure 5, Yoroiden Samurai Troopers, Cutey Honey Flash, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, and many others. Yen is also a huge fan of the American voice actor, Eric Vale, and the chart-topping, J-pop Super Star, Ayumi Hamasaki.

James is Elly's partner in crime. After they met in college at the University of New York at Albany's Japanese Studies department, they were inseparable. Miss Dream is not his first fansubbing venture and so he brings a lot of experience to the table. His duties around Miss Dream are:

• Translation of video releases
• Timing, typesetting, and encoding
• Putting the /m/ in /m/agical girls

When James isn't working on Miss Dream, he's an avid collector of Gunpla models and something of a /m/echa fanatic. He is also quite the Pokemon master and anime fanatic. James spends most of his free time collecting video game consoles and hacking them into submission. He is fond of puzzles and building things.

Anthylorrel is a 20something anime obsessed girl living in Florida the past few years. She first discovered Sailor Moon when her baby sitter brought over a fabsubbed copy of the R movie. It was like love at first sight. She took Japanese for several years in High School, and managed to pass her final by watching Sailor Moon and Escaflowne in original Japanese with subtitles. She promptly forgot most of it when she no longer used it every day though. How sad! Besides that all, she is still obsessed with a few of her favorite anime shows and mangas. She has been dabbling in photoshop for the past 10 years. Her duties at Miss Dream include:

• Graphical design work
• Light editing
• Being Elly's last resort when projects hit critical mass

Outside of her duties at Miss Dream, Anthylorrel enjoys watching TV, cooking, and snuggling with her adorable cats.

Sailorasteroid is a total otaku and geek, who has no life. Seriously, he does almost nothing but work and go home and hang out on the Intertubes and watch anime and other geeky programs. Beyond Sailormoon, he likes slice-of-life anime like Azumanga Daioh and Aria. Paul's responsibilities include:

• Manga snark
• Editing and proof-reading
• Podcast coordination

You can contact Sailorasteroid on AIM at seraasteroid (some lame-o took the username he wanted, so it's the Japanese phonetic spelling), and should do so, especially if you're a cute girl. (this might be a good time to mention that even though it's in the third person, Paul wrote this himself. Also, he can't be like Elly and write pages and pages.)

Koala Dan is Miss Dream's resident Australian and the "other" Dan of the Miss Dream team. You can often find him up until all hours of the morning analyzing arrays, validating variables and storing strings.

There are a number of things that Dan specializes in. They include the following:

• Delivering the impossible when it is asked of him.
• Beating code into submission with his bare hands.
• Having the barest, most rudimentary understanding of a few Japanese words (vital to his role on the podcast).

Dan also holds a number of formal qualifications. These include:

• A PhD in Awesomeness.
• License to Code (issued by the Internet Police).
• Black belt in SQL-Fu.

When not coding, Koala Dan spends his time drinking tea, talking in a sexy voice, commenting on art, books and other high-brow subjects and generally being awesome. His hobbies include referring to himself in the third person, inflating the truth and being right in discussions, all of which he enjoys on a regular basis. He hopes you have enjoyed this brief article about him that has told you very little of a serious nature, and asks that you see Appendix A when it is written, because he figures that since he won't be credited for any translation, he might as well have an appendix to his name.