Wrestling Trio Go Super Saiyan for Wrestlemania 32

The WWE's Wrestlemania 32 kicked off on Sunday with plenty of surprises outside of headline matches between Roman Reigns and Triple H, the Undertaker and Shane McMahon, and Dean Ambrose and Brock Lesnar. One ring entry that grabbed anime fans was the trio The New Day. The group busted out of a giant cereal box to reveal themselves in Saiyan Armor from Dragon Ball Z.

The #BootyOs are flowing on the stage of #WrestleMania, as #TheNewDay enters! @DiGiornoPizza #risetotheoccasion https://t.co/Z4UtMouxA8

— WWE (@WWE) April 4, 2016
MMA fighter Ronda Rousey is also a big Dragon Ball Zfan. She confessed her long-time crush on Vegeta and has since trained as Pikachu and shared her hopes to star in a live-action Metroid film.

Thanks to James Moore for the news tip.

[Via Hector Diaz from SB Nation]

Tales of Link Smartphone Game Released in English

Bandai Namco Entertainment released an English version of its Tales of Link smartphone game on the Google Play store.

Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game:

Your favorite characters from the popular “Tales of” series are here in an all-new story, crafted just for your mobile screen! TALES OF LINK is a free-to-play RPG in which you create a party of your favorite heroes to fight in fun, tactical battles on their journey to save the world! Assemble your party and battle your way through the main story as your team grows stronger. Fans of anime series, JRPGs, and the classic “Tales of” will love the exhilarating battles and exciting tactical gameplay that TALES OF LINK brings right to the palm of your hand!
TALES OF LINK is set in a world protected by the “Seal of the Holy Shrine.” When the seal to the heavenly world is suddenly broken, the “Seed of Ruin" is unleashed, scattering demons across the land. These demons bring inevitable disaster and threaten to inflict war and suffering on the world, and it's up to you to stop them! Join your favorite anime characters on an epic journey to cleanse the world of these demons and stop them from destroying heaven and earth!

Bandai Namco Games originally released the game in Japan in 2014. In the game, Shiori Mikami leads the game's voice cast as adventurer Sara. Sara teams up with characters from past Tales of games in order to defeat enemies. The cast of characters also includes fairy Lippi (Ai Nonaka), goddess Leone (Aya Endo), and warriors Caesar (Masakazu Morita).

Bandai Namco Entertainment had trademarked the title in Europe last August.

[Via Tales For Life]

Adult Swim's Toonami to Run Hunter x Hunter TV Anime

A pre-show feature on the Adult Swim website, Toonami: Pre-flight, announced on Friday that the Toonami block will run the Hunter x Hunter television anime. The series will premiere on April 16.

Bang Zoom! Entertainment is producing the anime's English dub. North American anime and manga distributor Viz Media announced its dub cast for the 2011-2014 series in March:

Erica Mendez as Gon Freecss
Cristina Vee as Killua Zoldyck
Matthew Mercer as Leorio
Keith Silverstein as Hisoka
Erika Harlacher as Kurapika
Viz Media announced in October that it licensed the series. The company plans to release the series on Blu-ray Disc and DVD.

The second television anime adaptation of Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter manga premiered in Japan in 2011 and ran for 148 episodes. The final episode premiered in 2014.

Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired in Japan. The series retold the story of Togashi's original manga from the beginning. The story follows Gon Freecs as he strives to become a Hunter in order to find his father and to find the reason why his father abandoned him as a baby to become a Hunter.

Togashi launched the series in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1998, and Viz Media published the manga's 32nd volume in English in April 2014. Togashi is resuming his Hunter × Hunter manga with the Ankoku Tairiku (Dark Continent) arc. The manga has been on hiatus since August 2014. Viz Media confirmed in March that its digital edition of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will publish the return of series.

The manga also inspired a television series in 1999-2001, two anime films in 2013, and several OVAs. Viz Media released the original anime series on DVD.