Hi Nick!

I'm glad to see that you're still intending on
using html for the actual sale pages, since it
wuold have made surfing a little bit funky
otherwise ^^;; (so says the queen of tabbed
browsing).  I'm personally on the fence about
Flash.  I absolutely hated having to learn it for
my degree (Flash 3, and the teacher didn't care
too much if we were daydreaming about html instead
of vector-based software *lol*), managed to
completely avoid Flash 4, and found myself doing a
self-taught crash course in Flash 5 for my
Portfolio.  Unfortunately that's no longer online
anymore, but...  I did eventually come to admire
the effects it can create.

Flash is VERY nice for integrating motion into
your multimedia pieces, and very nice as far as
size is concerned, so long as you're using simple
graphics (for people who haven't used Flash
before, it basically just saves the points -- the
vectors -- to an image or text, and saves what
color to fill them in when it renders it on the
screen.  Kind of like connect the dots.  Which
means that you're really cutting down on file
size, and you can size up or down without losing
any quality whatsoever, so long as everything has
been rendered as a vector.)  

The thing is, I'm not sure the average visitor
would really notice the difference between 55k
and, say, 27k enough to warrant switching over to
an entirely different system.  In fact, 55k is
rather great :D.  I generally try to shoot for
under 100k on my pages.  

Giving people a menu to choose whether they want
the flash site or the html site is nice, but it
means having to have a click-through page, and
that means more layers between your visitors and
what they want to see.  If it were a personal site
I'd say that that's no problem, but with it being
a commercial site...it may cost you valuable visitors.

Well, something to think about anyway.  In the end
it IS your site, and you can design it however you
wish *G*.

Anyway, on to the feedback of the design!:

Stats: I'm using a 1024x768 resolution on Netscape
7.0.

You may want to think about darkening up the grey
on the menu panels to better merge with the black
of the series pages, etc.  Personally, I love the
choice of black on cel sale pages...it really
makes the colors pop and gives everything a nice,
crisp look.

I like the animation on the "Anime Chaos" logo
text, though the blue line animation next to it is
a little bit distracting after a while.  Maybe you
could have the blue line move to the "Home" text
once as part of the opening animation, and then
have it move underneath "News" or "Products" or
whatever when the user puts their mouse cursor on
the corresponding hotspot?

The little jiggle that Ryoko does seems a bit out
of place, though I adore the idea of it looking
half painted, half not :D.  Run with that, it's an
excellent idea!

Talia (eh heh...and for my next novel...)