In the past two years, I haven’t been utilizing this website as much as I should. There are several reasons why, but listing them wouldn’t change the fact that there haven’t been any updates for such [...]
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A warm welcome to visitors and clients alike. If this is your first time here, please familiarize yourself with the links located at the top and bottom of the page; they will allow you to navigate and find what you need. This website was built from the ground up using various forms of software and applications, namely Netbeans IDE and Adobe Photoshop CS5. The platform used for content management (CMS) is WordPress and running version 3.7.1 at the moment. To give potential clients an idea of how long it took to build this particular website (excluding content such as text […]
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Background: In the beginning of September 2013, I purchased my first camera from Henry’s Photography. While it was not an INSANE deal, I price matched a Costco advertisement for a Nikon bundle. [...]
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At the moment, the website is currently maintained by myself (UltimaniumX) and updated on a very irregular basis. It has come to a point where I no longer have the time and commitment to contribute or add much of anything to Yumestate. Here are some announcements regarding the future direction of Yumestate.com. Originally, my goal for Yumestate was to build a blog that attracted readers and visitors who shared a similar passion. I wanted to design an aesthetically pleasing WordPress theme and then have authors help bring new and fresh content to the website. It turned out that finding reliable [...]
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Greetings Everyone, This post is a little later than usual due to the fact that I am out of town at the time of writing this. As we move forward into summer, some of us will be traveling and/or on vacation, so I thought writing a little on that would be a nice change of pace. Recently I took a road trip from Canada down to the United States. The drive was about 9 hours with breaks for gas and food. I spent half that time driving and the other half watching anime and listening to music. On my tablet, [...]
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Greetings everyone, This is the second post of hopefully many more to come, so please continue to read and support Yumestate! The end of March signified the conclusion of winter 2013 anime, and April kicked off with a whole new set of series for the spring season. This month we’ll take a look at some of these shows that finished, as well as discuss some classics that made it in my books in terms of quality. I’ve compiled the list for anime that I finished in the month of April as well as some that overlapped in the end of [...]
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Personally speaking, I have always considered the light novel as a genre of its own. It is not merely the amalgam of fantasy and sci-fi, coupled with romance at times, that stock the Young Adult shelves of today. Granted, I read them not in their intended form, which is that of Japanese text, but it is with the essence of the novel that makes for me the biggest difference. I attribute it to the specific literary nature of the Japanese – a style that is their own; completely common-place to them yet, to the eyes of an outside reader, a [...]
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Greetings Everyone. I haven’t been writing a lot lately due to the fact that I have been working on Yumestate’s third layout, titled “Midori”, or Green in Japanese. Instead of blogging on anime this time around, I wanted to share a little about the thought process that went into building Yumestate:Midori. Feel free to scroll through the screenshots if developer blogs don’t really interest you or is not your type of thing. After coming back from a hiatus, I wanted to give Yumestate a fresh start for the year, and that meant choosing a colour theme that matches the current [...]
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Most of my free time is spent at the computer checking emails, visiting websites, playing games, coding, designing, whatever. But 90% of the time I have music playing in the background. For the past year or so my playlist has consisted of songs and tunes related to anime, with the odd English pop sing inserted here and there. If you look at my playlist now, maybe like 10% of it are songs NOT related to anime.  Nekomonogatari’s OP, Perfect Slumbers Sung by Tsubasa Hanekawa’s voice actress, Horie Yui. It was only in a span of 2 years that my playlist [...]The post How Important is Music in Anime? appeared first on YumeState :: Anime Blog.
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