Oh, and of course this wouldn't be just limited to galleries of Ojamajo DOremi. Or to pictures, even. I bet we could recover cool music and videos, too. Entire websites! This means fans of other anime and manga could be also interested.

Ojamajo Doremi came out at the exact right time, when the Internet was still seen as new, but already had appeal to average users. When digital art was becoming popular, but was still niche. When on-line galleries were common, but centralized services for artists and social media didn't exist yet. Therefore, many defunct galleries contain lots of Ojamajo Doremi stuff. But, as I said, this project is for all. If we get it going, we should inform fans of other anime, manga, and fans of all sorts of media. They'll also want to see what can be recovered.

id be totally down to help. I havent done much digging on dead sites before, but ive spent alot of time downloading, preserving, and organizing art from specific fanbases. got ~3000 unique pieces of doremi art (mostly lewds from /delicious/, but im considering making it an all-encompassing doremi fanart folder) here: https://mega.nz/folder/yc4w2SaZ#RTI_7gzYcXCWy7_UzLPYCQ

>>377 it sounds like it would be good to explore neocities and geocities.ws

>>382 Oh, you're the one that made the Mega? Thanks! >id be totally down to help Great! Look, this is how I do it normally: I have two ways to find the URL of old sites. The first way is going to sites where they share doujin, such as nhentai.net and I check the doujin that looks old. Then I check the last pages. Those pages usually have info, and if that info includes an URL, then step 3 is to type that URL into Wayback Machine.

>>386 And then, if you're lucky the galleries can be explored. Some times you get broken websites, but other times you really get lucky. And that's one way that I use. There's another way that I have to obtain URLs. Of course I'm open to other ways. >>385 Yes! Yes, of course. Well, sounds to me like there is some interest. So, later I'll tell you how I propose we unite all the people interested, so we can all work together united, in one centralized place.

I'm very interested in this subject. I've expressed quite a few times on this board that I'm passionate about the history of oekaki, and after years of booru browsing and torrent downloading, seeing so many oekaki images in art collections brings me a great feeling of dread that we'll never truly know who that art belongs to. This project could potentially help find out just where these oekaki images come from. Some from doujinshi circles' BBS boards on their homepages, others from miscellaneous Futaba spinoffs, who knows?

>>394 It's so good to see people interested! If we work together, I bet we can recover awesome, awesome art.

>>387 I'm kinda autistically obsessed with media preservation, especially when it comes to niche Internet stuff, so I'd totally be down with contributing to this in some way. If you're able to find someone who knows scripting, they could probably find a way to compile links/images more efficiently than what you're doing now. One thing I propose we could do is try to archive lost Doremi fanwork from other mediums, in addition to the artwork. I think it'd be cool to find lost Doremi fanvideos/AMVs, for example (I know the Wayback Machine occasionally archives Youtube videos). If that's outside your limits, though, we could just stick to the artwork instead. >There's another way that I have to obtain URLs. What is it, if you don't mind me asking?

>>377 Any update on this OP?

>>438 Not OP, but I'm still here, collecting old CGs from time to time. They used to be easier to find, but search engines make it harder to find old pictures everyday. Pic related is something I found with about 2 minutes of searching though

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~l_g_c/l_g_c/cgroom1.html ■ スク水あいちゃん ■ ■ コメント ■ ２０００ 年 の 秋頃 から ２００１ 年 にかけて 開催 さ れ た た 企画 ページ 『ドキッ！ スク 水 だらけ あいちゃん 秋 祭 大会』 に ワタシ が た スクール 水着 の あいちゃん であり ます。。 すっかり 忘れ 去ら れ てしまっ て おり た が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が が eléctrica ) この度突然思い出したかのようにこ のページに掲載とあいなりました。

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~l_g_c/l_g_c/junk/hanacyan.gif Old Pale Pink gallery. Weirdly, this is Hana-chan. Maybe the artist drew this before the anime itself showed how Hana-chan would look as a gimp?

http://www5a.biglobe.ne.jp/~l_g_c/l_g_c/nekoro.html ■　寝転び娘　■ 薄着のヨウジョさんは、いろんな所のガードが甘くなるので 見ていて嬉しいことこの上なしであります　ヽ(´ー｀)ノ 早く夏がこないかなぁ、という願いを込めつつ描いてみましたが 相変わらず背景がないのはいただけませんね。 さくらタンに似ているような気もしますが それは気のせいです(笑)。 This seems to be an OC. Inspired on CCS, but an OC. I find cute the fact that she's reading a manga about Ojamajo Doremi.

>>466 >>468 Very appealing artwork with nice, warm nostalgic colors. Time to gross this thread up a bit with some crude oekaki art.

http://www.din.or.jp/~rokugatu/gift_doremi04.html 麗香ちゃんによる世界征服をたくらむbeaucoupちゃんから相互無断リンク 記念(爆)にいただいた麗香ちゃんｘおんぷちゃんです♪ うえ？うおおおおおおおおおおお！！スゴイ！！！首輪･･･！！麗香ちゃ んとおんぷちゃんがしっかりと鎖でつながれてるなんて？！ わきがあまいのもセクシー♪ しかも、なにげなくそっとそえられた手が･･･うああ～た、たまらな･･･イ。 ゲボォッ！！（ろくがつ瀕死）

http://www.din.or.jp/~rokugatu/gift_doremi07.html 次世代ぷに最終兵器あぷあぷちゃんからいただきました！いまいちばんホット なふたり麗香ちゃんｘおんぷちゃんですようー♪ やった！ついにぷに史上最強といわれるあぷあぷちゃんから絵をもらっちゃった よ？ワーイ！これでごはん３杯はいけますネ♪日本むかし話盛りで… 切なそうなおんぷちゃんと、おんぷちゃんのキャミをめくりながらもおびえ顔の麗 香ちゃんがたまらんのですよ？ふきだしにすきな言葉をいれてみよう！ 「ろくがつ…愛されてないんじゃないの？」 「ヘタレなろくがつなんて…キライですわ」 ムキーうるさいよ！！(爆)

http://www.din.or.jp/~rokugatu/gift_doremi02.html 死に目マスターはいむちゃんからいただいた死に目おんぷちゃんです♪ うああああ～～？！すごいですよ？ 無造作になげだされた肢体からむけられる、うつろな眼差し･･･無防備で はかない。少女という、あまりに小さく無力な存在。 登場して間もない頃、一見強気にみえたおんぷちゃんの瞳の奥底に時折 垣間見た表情って、わりとそんなかんじでした。 だからこそここまで彼女に惹かれてしまうのですね。

Lovely idea. Occasionally do some wayback machine digging and have a pretty sizable doremi image collection (although I'm terrible at bookmarking sites). A good way to find old circle sites is to check old doujin events, many of these have lists of participating circles (two random examples from my bookmarks): https://web.archive.org/web/20050825223619/http://pichi.net/jugem/popuket/5/cl.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010830152832/http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~fb7m-snhr/dfcircle.htm Another treasure trove are artist ring sites. These usually has link to tons of old artists: https://web.archive.org/web/20030803105613/http://www.redangels.nara.nara.jp/~murao/cgi/ring/ering.cgi?mode=all&no=0 https://web.archive.org/web/20031005130020/http://cutieisland.com/cgi-bin/punito/book/tbookmarkp.cgi?m=&l=selected&a=and&s=&b=&g=&ban=1&p=41

>>531 Nice! Good to see there's support for this idea. Speking of old sites, anyone knows the old website of this artist? It's the artist (or one of the artists) behind a certain old Japanese project of expanding the Ojamajo Doremi universe. It was a sort of "what if" scenario.