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The MIDIs on this site helped me to learn the piano. Even though I don't feel the same way about Sailor Moon anymore, this is my tribute.
Early MIDIs: 1992
Sailor Moon's anime debuts in Japan.People were sharing Sailor Moon MIDIs as early as 1992 on Japanese web services, particularly NIFTY-serve. Because of that, many have been lost. The earliest pages I found were from 1997, but as early as 1992 people were making MIDIs for Sailor Moon, even though it only began airing in Japan in 1991. Making matters worse, Japanese hosting services struck down MIDIs with copyrighted content!
When Sailor Moon's English dub is cancelled after only a season and change, the online fandom gathers a petition of 10,000 signatures and puts it to DiC, convincing them to air the remaining episodes. It's that same fandom that creates, and shares, these songs.
Rini's collection of MIDIs was lost for years, and a recovery in 2023 was missing many of these files. I have put this together so we may have the most complete version possible.
Please remember these little lost pieces of history.
The Alvin
| Names | The Alvin, alvin777 |
| Real Name | Krasnoyarov Stanislav Yevgen'evich |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1997-1998 |
| Community | Geocities |
Anderson Sumitomo Otuka
| Names | 1997-1998 |
| Real Name | Anderson Sumitomo Otuka |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1997-1998 |
Sailor Vesta
| Names | The Alvin, alvin777 |
| Real Name | Krasnoyarov Stanislav Yevgen'evich |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1997-1998 |
Sailor Vesta
| Names | The Alvin, alvin777 |
| Real Name | Krasnoyarov Stanislav Yevgen'evich |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1997-1998 |
Sailor Vesta
| Names | The Alvin, alvin777 |
| Real Name | Krasnoyarov Stanislav Yevgen'evich |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1997-1998 |
| Names | Ramuro, RAM-ROH, (ram)-ROM |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1992-Current |
Ramuro is a prolific MIDI creator, particularly with Sailor Moon where he started. He began his uploads on the pre-WWW Japanese communication service NIFTY-serve in 1992.
The availability of his work is heavily affected by the fact that JASRAC, the Japanese Association for the Rights of Artists and Creators, consider MIDIs and MP3s to be copyrighted by their original works, and strike them down liberally. This might be worsened by one of JASRAC's auditors being plagiarised by Daria Kawashima for Moonlight Densetsu, as the dispute was settled on condition of royalties.
Therefore, as early as 2009-2010 Ramuro's work has not been available even on his own website. Furthermore, the original MIDIs appear to be lost, with only the MP3s ever being uploaded.
Most data from NIFTY-serve, generally, is lost. Additionally, Ramuro's original homepage is excluded from the Wayback Machine.
A collection of Ramuro's MIDIs were captured by the Wayback Machine after being distributed on a secret page of his website. However, these were "in progress" works, and did not include completed MIDIs.
Most of Ramuro's work, like most of the NIFTY-Serve/Japanese MIDI community, did not make it over to Western websites and archives, and when they did they were mostly uncredited, likely due to the fact that the UNICODE software people use to open these files cannot render Japanese characters, resulting in Mojibake for names, credits, and meta text.
Ramuro's website is entirely in Japanese, but he does request credit, so please do mind this.
Ramuro is still around, alive, and well, and updates his website semi-regularly.
| Names | Rini, Yoshiaki Howgaku (sp) |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1998-2002 |
Rini was a prolific MIDI creator based in Kyoto that maintained their popularity overseas, largely thanks to the fact that Rini's website was made available with English translations.
Rini is the source of some of the rarest Sailor Moon media, the sheet music books, which as of 1998 they stated on their website were out of print (even as Sailor Moon had just come to its end). As a consequence, Rini's scans are the only known scans online, though the books likely exist (and are very expensive) somewhere.
This sheet music was lost for many years until it was recently recovered. Some sheets are still missing, and any local copies you may have of any Sailor Moon sheet music at all are extremely welcome.
Rini also transcribed highly accurate copies of this sheet music into MIDI form, and transcribed a number of other tracks from the series as well. These two were largely lost until recently. A few files were still missing, so I hope my collectioin of MIDIs can form the most comprehensive available. I had to search a lot and I suspect some are still out there, so let's keep our fingers crossed that we can recover them all.
Rini abruptly allowed their hosting to expire in about 2013 or so. I'm uncertain if they are still around at all, but it seems unlikely. For that reason alone, please endeavour to preserve their work, with credit if possible, so that we can celebrate the great things they did for the early international Sailor Moon community.
| Names | Rini, Yoshiaki Howgaku (sp) |
| Homepage | http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html |
| Years Active | 1998-2002 |
Bomi Lee was the largest source of the DiC-exclusive soundtrack MIDIs. Most you will come across are credited to Bomi Lee and they did an excellent job on them.
Their webpages were largely composed of iframes, meaning they aren't truly possible to view anymore and were not successfully archived. However, they did a lot for the community and contributed an immeasurable amount of work.
Bomi Lee commonly co-created MIDIs with other people as well. Please be sure to credit their MIDIs if you spread them around, but mostly, just please spread their work if possible!
