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I miss a lot of the old Bleach sites - I loved that Isshin shrine, Mack Daddy. ;-; All of the sites at losstarot.net. I also think there was a November 11 shrine from Darker Than Black at one point, but I'm not sure if I've just hallucinated that or what but I wish it were real and still around.

Also seconding a lot already mentioned in this post - peach-arrow, royal-hours, winhill, etc.

(This post is a mess; my thoughts are jumbled right now.)

Wow, thanks, everyone, for digging up those links. I spent so much time during my adolescence browsing all these shrines, and remember so many of these FF shrines in particular, and I... am still spending a fair amount of time crawling them from time to time via Wayback Machine. But I didn't remember all the URLs, and there's only so much you can dig up by crawling affiliate lists. LOL

omg Water Nymph and Sharpshooter I REMEMBER THAT SPLASH PAGE DOWN TO THE LOADING BAR

THE RIKKU SHRINE AND ALL ITS LAYOUTS

ALL THE TIFA AND AERITH SHRINES ALL OF THEM

Dream Image was also one of my favourite shrine names for Tidus.

All the CLAMP shrines!!

sob all my beloved Naminé shrines .____. The Soliloquy and Monologue duo. ;_; (I know Monologue lives on in Chrissy's gorgeous Drift though.) I need even more Kingdom Hearts shrines because the thing is a giant mess now, and it'd be lovely to see shrines cover the many fragments that make up the series haha.

Speaking of Bleach shrines, I remember a lot of them from when the series was in its early stages... There was an Orihime shrine I really loved. ;_; And I don't know whether this was a different shrine, but one wrote extensively about Uryuu/Orihime scenes and pointed out so many scenes I wouldn't have picked up on back then...

I've always loved shrines that point out things I wouldn't have noticed myself (especially with information being so limited back then, no Wikis, no replays on YouTube, not as many FAQs), and many old shrines did that for me.

FF and CLAMP aside, I miss a lot of shrines to subjects that haven't really made it to ~the new age~. I browsed a wealth of past The Legend of Dragoon shrines before starting my Rose shrine, and I'm so sad I wasn't there to befriend the people who created them (not like I knew the game back then though). I'm sure Miranda shrines like Moonlight made me be kinder to certain characters when I eventually experienced or reexperienced the story myself, or at least made me pay more attention to them, thus giving me the chance to learn understand those overlooked characters. Even just the fact that there's a shrine for a character (which equates appreciation of said character) did so much for me.

Or Star Ocean 3 shrines like Insolence, where probably most of the content consists of... optional scenes??? I think? I remember reading this as a teen and going "wtf where did you get all this info from, is this fanfiction".

Lost Lenore, an Izumi Rio shrine, had super gorgeous graphics, and I loved the shrine name so much. *_*

MY REAL OLD SCHOOL LOVE THOUGH - Angel Sanctuary. If I could bring one shrine back, "Per Aspera Ad Astra" (here), a shrine to Alexiel and Lucifer, would be one of the first to come to mind. I'm pretty sure the shrine was similar to Larissa's death wish in that it just dove into analysis and interpretation right away... I learned so many amazing things just from reading that.

On the same note, I think one of my very first introduction to shrines was a domain (German, most likely) called something like tokyo-love-story. I visited it all the time, partly because it kept changing layouts, several of which depicted immensely minor characters. It also housed shrines to those minor characters: Sevothtarte (called White World) and Barbiel from Angel Sanctuary, for example - characters I didn't like or didn't even notice when reading the manga back then. And the layouts were stunning. That left such a deep impression on me... And I'm sure that curiosity had a big impact on me wanting to make my own shrines.

Another shrine I sorely miss due to its sheer wealth of information spanning multiple sources is the Digimon Adventure Hikari/Takeru shrine. I forgot its name; I know Elysa knows it. WHY IS IT GONE WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I know I've mentioned this around here before but back when I was getting into shrines again I came across this really extensive Fae (?) shrine from Tsubasa that really, really inspired me. I forget who owned it but it had a HUGE essay on his name that I found incredibly fascinating. I forget what it was called and who owned it. ~sigh~

There was a FF12 Basch shrine called Carpe Diem, I adored that one. But one day it was gone. Broke my heart. a bunch of older shrines are now gone and that upsets me. I understand people move on and such. It's just sad to see them go.

Back in around 2003ish, Lenne.nu was previously owned by Yumi who had a good amount of influential Final Fantasy shrines. She had incredible writing skills and this really impeccable talent for analyzing characters. What I admired most was the honesty in her writing, which made her personality shine through. She also had A+++ designs at the time, and a good of people in the community were very much influenced by that.

She was actually going to make a comeback a few years ago with a revamp of one of her shrines (I was going to host it), but else someone had plagiarized some of her old content on their own shrine to the same character. It really discouraged her from launching it, despite having completed a good amount of the site :(

omg Yumi used to host me back in the day! I would have loved to her come back! T^T

I miss Ivy's Vincent Valentine shrine, Elegy. As well as many of the sites you all have mentioned. I'm certain there's a ton more I can't think of.

Destinie wrote:omg Yumi used to host me back in the day! I would have loved to her come back! T^T

No way! What was your url? Were you on M8 forums by any chance?

Stefi - I wasn't on the forums, unfortunately. :( She hosted me at yuumei.org so my URL was http://yuumei.org/~babyg I remember being hosted at youjou (??) for a spell until she moved me over. I remember being envious of all her domains, too!