“Isekai,” which translates to “different world” or “another world,” holds a significant place in the Japanese anime world. Its inception can be linked back to the concept of “portal fantasy” and has now flourished into a subgenre that encompasses various forms such as novels, films, manga, anime, and video games. Typically, in an isekai anime, the main character is either transported or reborn into an unfamiliar and fantastical realm, where the narrative revolves around their journey of exploration and survival.
Shakira and Cardi B are currently making the rounds with her collaboration “Puntería,” part of the former’s latest album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.
The feel-good pop song with flirty lyrics finds the two artists singing about a man who’s not good for them, but his game is so strong, they’ve fallen for him.
“Puntería” (which translates to “aim”) was born after the two artists met at the Fendi show during Paris Fashion Week. In an interview with each other, during the music video shoot, they elaborated on their first collaborative effort.
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“I wanted to do something with Cardi. We were always discussing internally if it was a good idea to put someone on this song. I always pictured Cardi in this song. I reached out, and here we are,” Shakira said. “It’s been so fun to work with you. It’s so easy, honestly. She’s like, ‘I’ll do everything.’ I’m like, ‘Are you ready to work long hours? Because I work long hours.’ She’s like, ‘I’ll be there from 6 to 6 a.m.’”
After admitting she manifested to work with Shak, Cardi B gushed: “I knew it. I knew this day would come. It came. God is good, Jesus. I don’t care if she wants me to meow — I’m doing it. I cannot wait. Seriously, that is my dream.”
Below, check out the complete lyrics translated into English:
[Intro: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
[Pre-Chorus: Shakira]
You have style to call my attention
You throw darts at me that go straight to my heart
Oh, and as many times as I try
Oh, it’s impossible to avoid you
[Chorus: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
[Verse 1: Cardi B]
You, you got me stressin’, thinkin’ ’bout sexin’
Baby, keep me company
Give me your fire, squeeze my butt although you’re not the one for me
I got the night, night, put a man right to sleep
Yeah, I’m pretty lil’ thing from face to feet
I’m from the Bronx (Bronx), but I got a Georgia peach
I got a empanada, mama, that he love to eat (Muah)
A wolf like Shaki’, you’re my tiger
Bite me hard, don’t forget about this booty
[Chorus: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
[Verse 2: Shakira & Cardi B]
Where he puts the eye, he puts the bullet
He shoots the target and I fall as if nothing
But if you steal two kisses from me
I won’t even think about the third one
I’m indecisive all night
And wake up with shirt
Now I don’t know if I even want to stop
Your hands melt me, your lips drug me
Your biceps drive me crazy
I never direct you, you always go straight
To my G-spot
[Chorus: Cardi B & Shakira]
You have good aim
You know how to last, the other ones stay without battery
He throws darts at me and it doesn’t suit me
But I love it if he has it inside
I get kinky for you, I know that Cardi B will never leave your mind
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
[Verse 1: Yeonjun, Huening Kai, *Taehyun*, Beomgyu, Soobin] Yeah, I ran away countless times just out of fear
Leaving you waiting at the starting line The morse code amidst the ruins an old promise, promise
Not knowing the reason of my tears, my anemoia
*You and I*, under the starlit promise
*Before our* dust-piled crown Once again, like the dream carved in my soul
Be my eternity, say my name
[Chorus: Yeonjun, Taehyun, Soobin, Huening Kai]
I remember (Remember, yeah) the answer I finally found
My future is you (Is you) Say my name (Name)
I'll hug you tight, as promised on the first day (As promised) Like déjà vu
You're like déjà vu Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
[Verse 2: Soobin, Taehyun, Yeonjun, Beomgyu]
In the flaming rain that's burning me
Within that long, eternal journey
The sadness we shared is my clarity Is by your tears Oh, even when I'm falling, you're all I need
Amid all the ruins, our place of promise The land of rest, the return of eternity
You're the one that waited for me
[Chorus: Taehyun, Huening Kai, Soobin, Yeonjun]
I remember (Remember, yeah) the answer I finally found
My future is you (Is you) Say my name (Name)
I'll hug you tight, as promised on the first day (As promised) Like déjà vu
You're like déjà vu Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
[Chorus: Yeonjun, Huening Kai, Soobin, Taehyun]
I promise you, over and over (Yeah)
My future is you (Is you) Under the veil of light (Oh-oh) I'll hug you tight, who's shining like a bride (Oh-oh) Like déjà vu
You're like déjà vu Say it (Say it), say it (Say it)
Say it, say it louder
Japanese publisher TO Books launched the English version of its Corona EX manga website on Monday as a paid subscription service, featuring both previous translations of its works from various English publishers (such as Seven Seas Entertainment or J-Novel Club), as well as works machine-translated through Google Translate, which the site admits to possibly contain errors. The service has a US$4.50 monthly subscription cost.
The site currently contains the Ascendance of a Bookworm manga, the Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Youthful Journey manga, The Swordwoman With Curse manga, and The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash. The individual page for each work on the site indicates whether it contains translations previously released by other companies, or if it contains content translated using Google Translate. Of the four listed works, Fukatsu's The Swordwoman With Curse is listed as using Google Translate, while all three other titles use prior translations by J-Novel Club or Seven Seas Entertainment.
The machine-translated The Swordwoman With Curse manga contains entire untranslated panels and text (often handwritten), among other errors.
The service will leave bonus material, such as short manga, short novels, or author afterwords untranslated.
Bushiroad previously annouced in December that it would use the Mantra Engine to machine-translate Kore Yamazaki's The Ancient Magus' Bride and Ghost and Witch manga.
Shueisha's MANGA Plus service began releasing Daisuke Miyata's Rugby Rumble (Saikyō no Uta) manga in English last October, crediting the AI localization company "Orange Inc." along with Media Do Co., Ltd. for lettering and editing. After a backlash on social media about the lettering quality, MANGA Plus released a new version within a week, crediting Amaki as letterer and editor alongside Orange and Media Do.
Source: Corona EX website via Siliconera
Disclosure: Kadokawa World Entertainment (KWE), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kadokawa Corporation, is the majority owner of Anime News Network, LLC. Yen Press, BookWalker Global, and J-Novel Club are subsidiaries of KWE.
An early look at the updated LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary offers a closer look at the new (old) Darth Maul minifigure – and highlights numerous errors throughout the book.
If you’ve picked up any LEGO-adjacent literature in the past few years, you’ll already be accustomed to the mistakes and errors that often plague the copy and images – especially in visual dictionaries and encyclopaedias. The inaccuracies will likely only be picked up on by those hardcore fans who know their stuff, but that sort of defeats the point of these books, which is surely to offer a reliable resource for casual fans to reference.
The 2024 edition of the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary is now the latest victim of these errors. As revealed in a first flick-through from YouTuber Ashnflash, the book is full of inaccuracies, and examples spring up straight away in the title’s timeline: from incorrectly identifying Jek-14 as the first original LEGO Star Wars character (we won’t stand for this Jedi Bob erasure) to describing the T-6 Jedi Shuttle as a ‘Rebels-era craft’. (It’s actually from the Republic era.)
Ashnflash picks up on one of the most puzzling editorial decisions in the book too, which is that the 25 years of LEGO Star Wars timeline actually only covers 24 years (it stops at 2023). The rest of the book then takes a mostly surface-level dive into the different eras of LEGO Star Wars, from the Fall of the Republic and Galactic Civil War to the Rise of the First Order. Additional chapters include Specialist Sets and Beyond the Brick, each exploring a specific segment of LEGO Star Wars products and fandom.
Perhaps the biggest reason most of us will be picking up the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary Updated Edition is not for its written content, though: it’s for that exclusive Darth Maul minifigure included with the hardcover version. A reprint of the character’s 2007 design – notably not the 1999 original, which featured slightly different eye printing – it’s absent the head-topping horn element that’s now standard for Maul, and features exclusive 25 Years of LEGO Star Wars back printing.
The original 1999 minifigure’s face print. (Note the eyes.)The new Visual Dictionary minifigure.
That places it beyond the remit of the rest of the LEGO Star Wars 25th anniversary minifigures, which are otherwise standard interpretations of brand new characters for the theme, such as Darth Malak and Saw Gerrera. To that end, Maul doesn’t come with a stand with printed tile – like the ones you’ll find in 75379 R2-D2, 75383 Darth Maul’s Sith Infiltrator and so on – but he is equipped with a hood, cape and double-bladed lightsaber.
For many LEGO Star Wars fans, the original Darth Maul face print has yet to be beaten, so this throwback minifigure will likely stir up just the right amount of nostalgia (even if it is technically a slightly later variant). And it looks pretty good in the flesh, expertly recapturing the retro printing of the original minifigure, though that printed cape will be just a little jarring to those of us who handled our original LEGO Star Wars minifigures enough to end up with permanently frayed robes.
“This figure is really awesome, this takes me back to the videogame,” Ashnflash says, though notes that the difference in design language 17 years later stands out immediately. “Even just seeing how they did the printing back then, seeing this in 2024 is kind of strange.”
You’ll be able to get your hands on this new-but-not-new Darth Maul minifigure in the LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary Updated Edition when it debuts on April 4. It’s available to pre-order at Amazon now.
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Shakira and Cardi B are currently making the rounds with her collaboration “Puntería,” part of the former’s latest album, Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran.
The feel-good pop song with flirty lyrics finds the two artists singing about a man who’s not good for them, but his game is so strong, they’ve fallen for him.
“Puntería” (which translates to “aim”) was born after the two artists met at the Fendi show during Paris Fashion Week. In an interview with each other, during the music video shoot, they elaborated on their first collaborative effort.
Trending on Billboard
“I wanted to do something with Cardi. We were always discussing internally if it was a good idea to put someone on this song. I always pictured Cardi in this song. I reached out, and here we are,” Shakira said. “It’s been so fun to work with you. It’s so easy, honestly. She’s like, ‘I’ll do everything.’ I’m like, ‘Are you ready to work long hours? Because I work long hours.’ She’s like, ‘I’ll be there from 6 to 6 a.m.’”
After admitting she manifested to work with Shak, Cardi B gushed: “I knew it. I knew this day would come. It came. God is good, Jesus. I don’t care if she wants me to meow — I’m doing it. I cannot wait. Seriously, that is my dream.”
Below, check out the complete lyrics translated into English:
[Intro: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
[Pre-Chorus: Shakira]
You have style to call my attention
You throw darts at me that go straight to my heart
Oh, and as many times as I try
Oh, it’s impossible to avoid you
[Chorus: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
[Verse 1: Cardi B]
You, you got me stressin’, thinkin’ ’bout sexin’
Baby, keep me company
Give me your fire, squeeze my butt although you’re not the one for me
I got the night, night, put a man right to sleep
Yeah, I’m pretty lil’ thing from face to feet
I’m from the Bronx (Bronx), but I got a Georgia peach
I got a empanada, mama, that he love to eat (Muah)
A wolf like Shaki’, you’re my tiger
Bite me hard, don’t forget about this booty
[Chorus: Shakira]
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
[Verse 2: Shakira & Cardi B]
Where he puts the eye, he puts the bullet
He shoots the target and I fall as if nothing
But if you steal two kisses from me
I won’t even think about the third one
I’m indecisive all night
And wake up with shirt
Now I don’t know if I even want to stop
Your hands melt me, your lips drug me
Your biceps drive me crazy
I never direct you, you always go straight
To my G-spot
[Chorus: Cardi B & Shakira]
You have good aim
You know how to last, the other ones stay without battery
He throws darts at me and it doesn’t suit me
But I love it if he has it inside
I get kinky for you, I know that Cardi B will never leave your mind
You have good aim
You know where to target me so that I can surrender, surrender
You attack me where it most hurts, you don’t suit me
But either in your bed or mine, I forget about all that
