Who are these people?

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. Japan's MIDI and Recomposer community on NIFTY-Serve immediately produces fan music on boards like FMIDIDAT, FGALAT, FANPLN. NIFTY's community of MIDIs encompasses karaoke friendly formats too. (Many of the NIFTY MIDIs here have karaoke information inside them.)

NIFTY-Serve was huge, with contests, lots of original music, and boards for everything from music, to aerospace, to childcare. An album of original NIFTY-Serve MIDIs was released in 1992. Iterations of Sailor Moon's score follow. As the 2000s roll in, JASRAC - the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers - begins pursuing further distribution of these files on account of copyright. MIDIs, and similar, are quickly struck down on the WWW.

When NIFTY-Serve shuts down, these files are mostly lost. JASRAC still enforces this copyright even today. Many files are hopelessly gone, and MIDIs that remain can't be legally distributed in Japan even now.

Across the Globe

Outside of Japan, it's a different environment. There's no equivalent to NIFTY's competitive RCP and MIDI scene, but there's no JASRAC, either. A thinner spread community of fans across the world produces MIDIs of their own on Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod. Bomi Lee's site, in 1998, reads: "I'm surprised people still come here!"

Most dubs outside Japan build steam in 1995. Fandom interest is quieter until then. But mailing lists keep hype going, with figures like Rini Yoshiaki sharing MIDIs, information, and hard-to-find resources from Japan. Dubs with entirely new scores, like the DiC dub, receive MIDIs of their own.

Authors outside of Japan are often simpler to archive. Their works having begun on the WWW, they're often still hosted or archived, somewhere. NIFTY is another story. Japan's computer development was siloed by nature, with unique technologies necessitated by mainstream failure to provide proper Japanese text input and encoding options (barring Macintosh). Outside the WWW, archival services did not have reach into these proprietary spaces, and MIDIs from NIFTY are very limited.

Authors

The Alvin

Names	The Alvin, alvin777
Homepage	http://www.geocities.com:80/Tokyo/Fuji/3064/About_Alvin.html
Years Active	1997-1998
Community	Geocities

alvin777 was a prolific member of the Sailor Moon Geocities web community. Far as my research has taken me, he is still around, and doing well in the tech field. I've reached out to him.

Names	Ramuro, RAM-ROH, ram-ROM
Homepage	https://ramroh.sakura.ne.jp/
Years Active	1992-Current

Ramuro is a MIDI creator based in Japan. He uploaded MIDIs on the pre-WWW Japanese communication service NIFTY-Serve from 1990, and started uploading Sailor Moon MIDIs from 1992. He's still around, updates his website semi-regularly, and does request credit when his work is redistributed.

The Japanese copyright authority JASRAC consistently strike down his Sailor Moon MIDIs and MP3s from the early 2000s. After NIFTY-Serve shut down, his original MIDIs seem to be mostly lost. Due to copyright, Ramuro has declined to pass on his materials to this archive.

A collection of Ramuro's unfiinished MIDIs were captured by the Wayback Machine in the 2000s. I'll be uploading them on their own unique page.

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.

Names	Rini, Rini Yoshiaki
Homepage	https://web.archive.org/web/20010302044024/http://members.lycos.co.uk/chibiusa/
Years Active	1998-2002

Rini was a MIDI creator based in Osaka that participated in many American mailing lists throughout the 90s and early 2000s. Their MIDIs were prolific in the Western MIDI community, and much of their website was available in English.

Rini is the source of some of the rarest Sailor Moon media, the sheet music books which discontinued print in the mid 90s. These books exist somewhere, but nobody else has made scans of them available.

This sheet music was lost for many years until it was recently recovered by Suzanna Xoco Ozomatli Aguilar. Some sheets may still be missing, so any local copies you may have of any Sailor Moon sheet music at all are extremely welcome.

Rini transcribed much of this sheet music into MIDI, and created a number of other tracks from the series as well. A few MIDI files were/are still missing, so I hope my collection 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 I have reached out for comment. Please endeavour to preserve their work, with credit if possible, so we can celebrate their contributions to the early Sailor Moon community.

Names	Bomi Lee
Homepage	http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/3914/main-midi.htm
Years Active	199?-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 the easiest to navigate anymore. However, they did a lot for the community and contributed an immeasurable amount of work. You can still see their content and it's readily available to download from different archival sources.

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!