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With more people reading manga and webtoons (aka vertical scroll comics) than ever before, Beat’s Bizarre Adventure gives three writers an opportunity each week to recommend some of their favorite books and series from Japan, Korea, and elsewhere. This week we have sugar daddies, Batman, and, of course, islands.

Cameroon’s Marie Ngah Manga scored a brace in the final against Malawi.Photo | AP Updated on: 17 Aug 2026, 10:43 am

RABAT (MOROCCO): Three goals for three lost finals. Cameroon finally won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday with a 3-0 victory over tournament debutant Malawi.

Webtoon Entertainment’s Q2 results show an adjusted EPS of $0.04, beating the $(0.07) estimate by 157.14%, though down 42.86% YoY. Sales of $338.465M missed the $339.461M estimate by 0.29% and fell 2.82% from the prior year’s $348.300M.

With more people reading manga and webtoons (aka vertical scroll comics) than ever before, Beat’s Bizarre Adventure gives three writers an opportunity each week to recommend some of their favorite books and series from Japan, Korea, and elsewhere. This week we have sports rivalries, snowy romance, and, of course, comics artists.

Here’s a tale of two movies. Supergirlcost $170 million to produce and had everything going for it: the backing of DC Studios and Warner Bros., worldwide distribution, and a marketing budget over $115 million. By year’s end, however, the film is projected to gross around $100 million domestic and a little over $200 million globally.…

The Digimonfranchise has posted its highest profit level in its 27-year history, surpassing the peak it hit during the original Digimon Adventure boom in 2000. Bandai Namco Entertainment President Nao Udagawa revealed the milestone in an interview with Weekly Famitsu.

The Playstation 5 is the top dog for U.S. consoles, with 46 percent of respondents who regularly play video games using the device. Nintendo’s Switch, soon to be the world’s most sold console, came second with 33 percent saying the same. Its follow-up model, the Switch 2, is already reaching 17 percent of gamers, while…

Snap Inc. beat Wall Street’s expectations across the board in its second-quarter 2026 earnings release, posting revenue of $1.599 billion — up 19% year-over-year — while confirming that its long-awaited Specs augmented reality glasses will get a dedicated launch event on September 16 in Los Angeles. The results, published in Snap’s official Q2 2026 financial…

The success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the box office could be seen like a runaway freight train in the days before its release. Anticipation not only for the next Marvel movie, but specifically the next Spider-Man movie after a five-year wait, coupled with stars Tom Holland and Zendaya, had this one on a…