Your First Dragonball Websites

Discussion regarding the entirety of the franchise in a general (meta) sense, including such aspects as: production, trends, merchandise, fan culture, and more.
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Post by Conan the SSJ » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:05 pm

The original DBZ Uncensored and FUNi's official DBZ website were probably the first ones I went to. I think I first visited DBZ Uncensored only a few months after Chris Psaros had ended it. Good times long ago.
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Post by The Time Traveller » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:41 pm

Speaking of Dragon Ball uncensored, I've always wanted to make my own version of the site, going over the American version of both Anime and Manga, comparing it to the original Japanese, with roll over pictures and high quality scans and snapshots... but that would take forever.

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Post by Gozar » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:54 pm

My first site was the DBZ Collectible Card Game site, lol. 2'nd was the Temple o Trunks.

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Post by bkev » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:57 pm

AnzuMazaki wrote:I visited Lelola, Dragonbal Angels: The Goten Shrine (an old DBZ site by deviantART's very own risachanTAG), Old fansites by people who have made their own Dragonball OCs (including deviantART's famous Messa),UncannyDragonballZ (a website by another deviant, Agra19)

and of course I visited Good, ol Temple'O'Trunks.
I was on DBA's forums up until their recent death. T_T; the site and such still exists, but no one's on the forums.
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Post by SSj_Rambo » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:45 pm

Being a pretty recent fan, here are all of the sites I ever visited on a regular basis for more than a month (in no particular order):

http://dragonballarena.gamesurf.it/english/index.php
http://myfavoritegames.com/
http://www.pojo.com/dragonball/ (barely)
http://daizex.com/
http://kanzentai.com/
http://db.schuby.org/daizex/index.php

*Note: The last three are the only ones I still visit.

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Post by B » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:10 pm

Dragon Ball Unlimited.

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Post by Dayspring » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:53 pm

Did anybody ever visit The Kienzan's Edge? I think fans of this forum would have loved its content.
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Post by Majin Buu » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:01 am

DBZ Uncensored, Vegeta Insane/Ginga Giri Giri (I loved their "you decide their fate" styled games), the Dragon Ball Z Otaku Alliance, and Planet Namek were the ones I would frequent. Unfortunately I didn't frequent DaizEX often, the only memory I have of it from back then is watching a couple clips of the Japanese version the site had, particularly the scene where Tenshinhan flashbacks and has memories about Chaozu as he's about to die against the Saiyans.

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Post by Chuquita » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:08 am

-Planet Namek
-Ginga Giri Giri
-Vegeta Insane
-Temple 'o Trunks
-Dragon Ball Arena
-DBZOA
-Dragonball-Doujinshi


And I also hung out in the DB section of ff.net and mm.org back in the day.


I didn't stumble onto Daizex until shortly before EX came back from retirement.
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Post by NeptuneKai » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:10 am

Dragonball Z Uncensored and Dragonball Z Unlimited.
Then of course we had Temple O' Trunks...I remember sitting there just clicking through all the pictures for at least an hour or so. (Bubba Trunks anyone?)
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Post by SaiyaMel » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:22 am

Some DB/Z/GT forum back in 2001/02... can't remember the name of it.. maybe it was Planet Namek. Some of the members I managed to remember though, are "MajinKarin" and "Infinate Loser"..

Ring a bell, anyone?

Sometime that place completely died. I then took residence on Pojo's and DBZOA,, now here.
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Post by Conan the SSJ » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:36 am

Chuquita wrote:-Dragon Ball Arena
-DBZOA
DBZOA was also one of my first ones, as was DB Arena to a more subtle extent, though both would've been probably a while after DBZU and FUNi's DBZ site.
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Post by Innagadadavida » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:49 am

When Dragon Ball Z was popular, I mostly used the internet to play flash games exclusively. But I do remember a kid used to tell me about a website he visited (some combination of bulma and nude :roll:), I don't remember if I ever tried to access that site (the chances are that I did try, but I don't think I ever had any success. Does, or did, a website like that ever exist?).

Me and that kid became good friends farther down the line, and we still are today.
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Post by Chuquita » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:49 am

Conan the SSJ wrote:
Chuquita wrote:-Dragon Ball Arena
-DBZOA
DBZOA was also one of my first ones, as was DB Arena to a more subtle extent, though both would've been probably a while after DBZU and FUNi's DBZ site.

DBA hasn't updated since February. :(

I'm happy they're still up though; a good number of Kabu's artwork can be found there, among many other things.


After DBZOA went down forever, I asked around and learned how to backtrack through the wayback so I could save their Project Shinonome scripts. I don't know how accurate they are, but I loved those scripts back in the day.


I also still have some old Planet Namek manga scans.

You know what's strange, I don't think I ever stumbled onto Funi's site until much, much later.
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Post by SaiyaMel » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:05 am

What screen name did you go by on DBZOA, Chuquita?
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Post by DominatorLost » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:07 am

JJ's Ultimate Dragon Ball Z/GT Site (or something to that extent) and a fuckton of GeoCities websites.

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Post by _StreetSonic_ » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:51 am

I don't remember all of them. I know one was the Temple O' Trunks.

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Post by fps_anth » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:56 am

I remember Planet Namek the most, and a bunch of random websites that I would find either from randomly browsing or from Beckett's Dragon Ball magazine :lol:

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Post by Forgotten Hero » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:57 am

Temple O' Trunks was the first, I think, that I saw through a friend. Then I was following MFG for a while, but they stopped putting up good news after a while. Then I found the Daizex podcast in 2005, and then this last summer I joined the forums.
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Post by omae no kaasan » Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:36 am

OH! The Ultimate Dragon Ball Info Site! I'd be on THAT page for hours, which really pissed my mom off since we were on dial-up at the time.
Holy shit! I remember that site!
from Beckett's Dragon Ball magazine
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