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- Lucca's playmat booking sells out on day one — the first sell-out on a product sales slot, and why collection slots land an hour later in Japan than the windows that produced them [Updated October 26: all 20 windows sold out, leaving only the daily re-release at about 17:00][Updated October 28, 2026] On the day Lucca opened, the four windows that opened on October 21 (all for collection today, October 28) changed from "Sold out" to "Closed". It is our first sighting of the `closed` label we described on October 24 as defined in the CSS but unused, and the remaining 16 windows still read "Sold out". We saw the change at 00:17 Italian time, before a single collection today had taken place, and because `Closed` overwrites `Sold out`, from today the page no longer shows that all 20 windows sold out. Details are in our October 28 article. [Updated October 26, 2026] The final four windows that opened on October 25 also read "Sold out", so all 20 are now gone. A five-day run of four windows selling out on the day they opened has ended, and the foot of the page reads "There are no available windows at the moment.". The only route left is the re-release of cancellation and no-show stock from approximately 17:00 on each event day (about 1:00 the next morning in Japan), and the original attaches a "subject to availability" caveat. [Updated October 25, 2026] The four windows that opened on October 24 now read "Sold out" as well, taking 16 of the 20. Only the four for October 25 (today) remain, and all of them are for collection on November 1, the final day of the event. In Japan time they open today at 18:00, 20:00, 22:00 and 00:00 the next day. [Updated October 24, 2026] The four windows that opened on October 22 and the four on October 23 now read "Sold out" too, taking 12 of the 20 windows. Only the eight for October 24 and 25 remain, and the pattern of selling out on the day a window opens has now held for three days running. The booking page's CSS also defines a "Closed" state for expiry, yet all 12 carry "Sold out" instead. Below is the article as published on October 22, reporting the first day's sell-out. Checking the Lucca Comics & Games playmat reservation page today — the target of the "Playmat Ticket Page" button on the official English site — all four windows that opened on October 21 (for collection on October 28) now read "Sold out". When we read the same page yesterday all 20 windows read "Coming soon", so the first day's allocation went on the day its first window opened. This is the first time we have confirmed a "Sold out" label on a sales slot for a NARUTO Card Game product through an official route. We also set out an easily missed asymmetry in the time difference. We published the Japan times for the booking windows yesterday, including the hour-long shift on October 25; what is new here is the collection side. Every collection day (October 28 to November 1) falls after the end of EU summer time, so the "exactly one week later, same time" mapping holds in Italian local time while a 10:00 booking window (17:00 Japan time) corresponds to an 18:00 collection slot.
- Getting into the venue where the official site says "the next big reveal" happens — Jump Festa 2027 general admission applications run November 2–16, and the NARUTO Super Stage starts 25 minutes after the last entryThe NARUTO Card Game official site closes its "New Info Revealed! Oct. 2026" page with a single line: "The next big reveal is coming in December 2026, at Jump Festa!" The Jump Festa 2027 official site updated its application, stage and booth pages on October 19, 2026, and admission applications are now moving. The event runs December 19–20, 2026 at Makuhari Messe; admission is free but entirely by advance application, and the general admission lottery runs November 2 at 10:00 through November 16 at 17:59, with results on November 24. The Jump Super Stage slot for NARUTO is on DAY 1 (December 19) from 16:55 to 17:25 — the final slot of DAY 1 — with Junko Takeuchi, Noriaki Sugiyama and Chie Nakamura appearing. Two practical catches follow: the general application deadline falls before the card game says what it will reveal, and the venue stops admitting people at 16:30 while the stage starts at 16:55. Note that the original-work official site's NYCC roundup says, immediately after its card game section, that the Super Stage will deliver follow-up news on what was announced — but the only project named for that stage is the new manga SHADOW RISING. The Jump Festa site itself carries no mention of the NARUTO Card Game as of today.
- A euro price appears for the "-Arriving in 2027-" playmat — Lucca's reservation page now reads "€42.90, VAT included", and the first booking window opens todayThe "Playmat Ticket Page" button on the official English Lucca Comics & Games page links to a Reserve Playmat page run by the Italian operator Play-system. As of today that page carries a line it did not carry when we read it in full on October 15: "The playmat costs €42.90, VAT included." This is the first euro-denominated price for any NARUTO Card Game product confirmable through an official route. The same product — NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- — now has published prices in three currencies: ¥3,850 (tax incl.) in Japan, MSRP $35 (+tax) on the official English pages, and €42.90 (VAT incl.) at Lucca. Put them on the same tax footing and all three land on a pre-tax figure of "35". We also confirmed that the first of the 20 booking windows opens today at 10:00 Italian time, and that the official pages for SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week — both opening tomorrow in the eurozone — still show the US dollar MSRP.
- The Premier Demo Event page differs across all four language versions — only the Asia pair says "early January 2027" and requires face photo registration, with merchandise "for participants only, Japanese version"The NARUTO CARD GAME official site carries its Premier Demo Event page in all four language versions — Japanese, English, English(Asia) and Traditional Chinese — all dated October 13, 2026. The contents do not line up. Only the Asia pair gives the period as "early January 2027," states that BANDAI TCG+ face photo registration is required, and notes that merchandise is "for event participants only" and "the Japanese version." The English page has no participation gift section at all, so it never mentions CP-001. Only the Japanese page names the 11 stores. We lay all four originals side by side and work out which page each region should be reading.
- [Breaking] The Kyoto venue has been added to the Premier Demo Event application groups — the official page was rewritten without changing its publication date, fixing Kyoto to "apply February 1–14, results February 19"The Japanese NARUTO CARD GAME official site has rewritten its 先行体験会 (Premier Demo Event) page while leaving the displayed publication date at 2026.10.13. Exactly one line changed: the venues covered by the "March dates" application group went from "Hokkaido and Aichi" to "Hokkaido, Aichi and Kyoto." That fixes the application window for the Kyoto venue (March 14, 2027, GIRAFULL Kyoto), which belonged to none of the groups on October 13, at February 1–14, 2027 with results on February 19 — and all 11 venues now have an application window. Our October 13 statement that "only Kyoto has no announced application method" is wrong as of today. We compared the current page in full against the October 13 Wayback Machine snapshot, and correct our records alongside the one discrepancy that remains: the "10 stores nationwide" heading versus the 11-venue list.
- Reading S-001, the Summon Card — the official site calls it "the card you need to summon Characters to the field", yet 9 of the 20 revealed Characters never go through itOne copy of S-001 sits on the table from the moment a battle begins. Its effect text is a single line — "You may rest this card to summon a Character card." — with no cost field, no stat fields and no rarity field. The official site describes it as the card required to put Characters onto the field, but count the 20 Character and EX Character cards whose effect text is readable and nine of them carry a way onto the field that never mentions S-001. On top of that, nothing in any revealed card says how a rested S-001 becomes active again. We read the whole card using the image published on October 13, 2026.
- BCG Fest Orlando is tournament participants only — and none of the tournaments is NARUTO. London has general entryA "Pre-Registration" page dated October 16, 2026 has appeared for the Orlando and London stops of BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27. Entry to Orlando requires taking part in one of eleven listed tournaments, none of which is NARUTO, and the page states "There will be NO ON-SITE WAITLIST or GENERAL ADMISSION." London has a General Entry tier that can join side events, the shop and on-site activities. Tickets for both go on sale October 25. The Admission field on the NARUTO Card Game official site has also been rewritten without changing its date. All checked October 18, 2026.
- The -NARUTO vs. SASUKE- playmat now carries two official US prices: US$40 and US$35The merchandise pages for the Orlando and London stops of BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 now list "NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Naruto vs Sasuke-" at MSRP USD $35.00. The English NARUTO Card Game official site, meanwhile, gives the same product as MSRP: 40 USD on its Premier Demo Event page. Two US prices for one product now sit side by side on Bandai official sites. The Chakra Set, which the NARUTO site explicitly says will also be sold at Orlando and London, does not appear on either venue Fest merchandise page. All checked October 18, 2026.
- BREAKING: NARUTO at BCG Fest Tokyo is a "Demo Session in BCGFest" — both sessions, and all three merchandise items are Premium Bandai only, buyable without attendingOn October 16, 2026 the Japanese NARUTO Card Game official site published its "BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in TOKYO" page, and the Fest official site posted a "NARUTO Card Game content list" the same day. NARUTO runs a demo session ("体験会 in BCGFest") at both sessions — February 20–21 at TOC Exhibition Hall and March 6–7 at Ikebukuro Sunshine City Exhibition Hall B・C. Merchandise is three items: two official playmats (¥3,850 tax incl. each) and the Premium Card Collection vol.00 -Chakra Set- (¥1,650 tax incl., six card types, one of each). Nothing is sold on site — Premium Bandai only — and the FAQ states plainly that you may take part in the merchandise sale without attending the event, so the general advance sale from 19:00 on January 8, 2027 is open to anyone. The two conflicting Side Event advance windows flagged on September 15 have been resolved, and the March venue changed from "Exhibition Hall C" to "Exhibition Hall B・C".
- Lucca Has 63 Tutorial Sessions — The Full 45-Minute Schedule Appears on the Registration Page, an Italian Demo Deck Is Confirmed, and Playmats Move to 4 Booking Windows a DayRegistration for the Lucca Comics & Games 2026 Tutorial Sessions opened on October 14, 2026, and the registration page linked from the official site now carries the full five-day schedule. October 28–31 each have 13 sessions and November 1 has 11, for 63 in total, spaced 45 minutes apart and running 30–45 minutes each. Demo Decks can be played in Italian or English, and playmat purchases are reservation-only, with four windows opening each day from October 21 to 25. The timetable column we had logged as "0 of 3 European events" is now filled for Lucca. We also record two places where the wording does not line up: the registration page gives two different opening times, and still says "Summer 2027".
- The CP-001 Chakra Card face is finally public — its effect text is word for word the same as C-001. The differences are the art and "NOT FOR SALE"Handed out at demo events across more than eleven countries, and from 2027 at Japan's Premier Demo Events too, the CP-001 Chakra Card had never shown its face. On October 13, 2026 it did, in the participation gift section of the Japanese 先行体験会 page. The effect text reads "When using Chakra, turn this card face-down." — identical to the standard C-001. There is no rarity field and no cost field. We read a promo card whose in-game performance is exactly zero different from the common version, using nothing but what is printed on it.
- There are five Chakra Cards, C-001 to C-005 — the CHAKRA set's contents read from its card images, and the Naruto and Sasuke samples turn out to have different artworkThe Merchandise section of the 先行体験会 (Premier Demo Event) page published on October 13, 2026 shows six card images for the Premium Card Collection vol.00 -CHAKRA set- (¥1,650 tax incl.). The card numbers read C-001, C-002, C-003, C-004, C-005 and S-001, and C-002 through C-005 are card numbers revealed here for the first time. All five Chakra cards share the same name and effect text; only the artwork differs (Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi, Gaara). The C-001 and S-001 artwork also differs from the samples published on July 29. We read every card face one by one, including what the official site never puts into words.
- Breaking: Japan's Premier Demo Event venues are set — from Ikebukuro on January 16 to Sapporo on March 21, with applications opening December 1. First yen prices: ¥3,850 playmat, ¥1,650 CHAKRA set [Corrected October 20: Kyoto has been added to the March grouping]On October 13, 2026 the Japanese NARUTO CARD GAME official site published its "先行体験会" (Premier Demo Event) page, revealing the venues, dates, application windows, participation gift and merchandise prices for Japan. Venues run from Hokkaido to Fukuoka, with the first on Saturday, January 16, 2027 at Dragon Star Ikebukuro. Applications go through BANDAI TCG+, and the window for the January dates opens Tuesday, December 1, 2026. Merchandise is the Official Playmat NARUTO vs. SASUKE at ¥3,850 (tax incl.) and the Premium Card Collection vol.00 -CHAKRA set- at ¥1,650 (tax incl.) — the first yen-denominated prices for any NARUTO CARD GAME product. We lay out the original wording, including the mismatch between the page's "10 stores nationwide" heading and the venue list, and the Kyoto venue missing from the application schedule. [Corrected October 20, 2026] The official page was rewritten without changing its date, adding the Kyoto venue to the "March dates" application grouping. Our statement that Kyoto was in none of the groupings and that its application method was unannounced is wrong as of that date: Kyoto applies February 1–14, 2027 with results on February 19, and all 11 venues now have a window.
- The NARUTO official playmat is listed on BCG Fest merchandise pages — under "SPECIAL PRODUCTS" at seven Asian stops, while Orlando and London, the two the press release named, list noneWe opened the merchandise page of all eleven BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 stops one by one. The NARUTO Card Game product "NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-" is listed at seven Asian stops (Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei), filed under "SPECIAL PRODUCTS" rather than the "EVENT COMMEMORATIVE PRODUCTS" heading used for every other title. Orlando and London — the two stops BANDAI's press release named for the two advance-release exclusives — list no NARUTO product at all, and the Tokyo stop has no merchandise page for any title. All checked October 13, 2026.
- The Demo Events Roll Out in Two Stages — "Wave 1 → Wave 2," Starting at Select Large-Scale BANDAI TCG+ Stores. The BCG Fest Venues Selling the Two Exclusives Are Named: Orlando and LondonBANDAI's English press release describes the in-store demo events beginning in February 2027 (Premier Demo Events; in Japanese, NARUTOカードゲーム 先行体験会) as a two-stage rollout. Wave 1 starts at select large-scale stores participating in BANDAI TCG+, with more stores added in Wave 2. The BANDAI CARD GAMES FEST 26-27 venues that will sell the two exclusives are not just "select" — Orlando and London are named. And the two Japanese primary sources differ on the start: "from early 2027" versus "from February 2027." Here is the schedule to launch, split into what is fixed and what is not.
- The First Booster Pack's Japanese Name Is "Sanjo! Uzumaki Naruto" — The Same as the Subtitle of Episode 1 of the Anime. Japanese Names for the Demo Events and the Two Exclusives Are Out Too, and There Are Two Official English NamesOn October 11, 2026 the official NARUTO site (naruto-official.com) published the New York Comic Con 2026 announcement in Japanese, revealing the Japanese names: the first Booster Pack is "参上！うずまきナルト" (Sanjo! Uzumaki Naruto), the in-store events are "NARUTOカードゲーム 先行体験会," and the two exclusives are "オフィシャルプレイマット -ナルトvsサスケ-" and "プレミアムカードコレクション vol.00 -チャクラセット-." That booster title can be found on the official site's anime episode list as the subtitle of Episode 1 of NARUTO (Land of Waves arc). Meanwhile two different official English names exist, the Japanese names of the three Starter Decks are still unannounced, and the card game site's roadmap still reads "Summer 2027" as of October 12.
- Three Starter Deck Leaders — The Third, Gaara, Is 0 of the 38 Revealed Cards, and "Sunagakure" Appears 0 Times. The Two Earlier Leaders Already Narrow Where the Difference ShowsBANDAI's October 10, 2026 press release named the three Starter Deck Leaders as Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara. Checking that against the 38 cards in our database: only two Leader cards are known, and they match on LIFE 15, DMG 1, POW 3 and rarity L. The differences are exactly two — the first effect and the traits. The second effect is word-for-word identical. That narrows what to look for on Gaara's Leader card. And Gaara is 0 of 38, with the trait "Sunagakure" appearing 0 times.
- Launch Is "June 2027" — Three Starter Decks Led by Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara, First Booster Pack "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!", In-Store Demos in February and 1 Million Demo Decks in SpringAt the "NARUTO: What's Next?" panel at New York Comic Con 2026, the NARUTO Card Game's launch month was narrowed to June 2027. According to BANDAI's official press release dated October 10, 2026, the launch lineup is three Starter Decks (led by Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara) plus the first Booster Pack, "Enter: Naruto Uzumaki!". Premier Demo Events begin at participating TCG stores in February 2027, and a global campaign distributing 1 million Demo Decks starts in spring 2027. The next major update is Jump Festa 2027 in December 2026. We lay out the primary-source wording alongside the fields that are still blank.
- NARUTO Card Game Is Coming to Dubai — "Tabletop.me" (November 6–8) Appears From Outside the Official Roadmap, and It Is the First Event Page Missing All Three of Participant Gifts, Merchandise and GiveawaysThe English official site published a new "Tabletop.me Event Information" page dated October 9, 2026. The event runs November 6–8 at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall (Dubai, UAE) — the first NARUTO Card Game event in the Middle East. But the event is nowhere on the roadmap published July 29, 2026, and the page is missing the Participant Gifts, Merchandise and Giveaways sections that all six existing venues carry. The Tutorial Session section is three lines long. We compared the heading structure of all seven event pages to lay out what is confirmed and what is still blank.
- There Is a Card Exhibition, a Photo Area, and Brand-New Art Reveals at NYCC — None of the Three Appears Under Any of the 15 Headings on the Official NYCC PageOn the opening day of New York Comic Con 2026 (11:31 PM JST, October 8), the official English X account @narutotcg_eng announced three things at the venue: a card exhibition, a photo area, and brand-new art reveals. None of the three appears under any of the 15 headings on the official English site's NYCC event page (and the Japanese official site has no NYCC page at all). Gen Con 2026 followed the same order: nothing on the event page, a first announcement on official X during the show, then a post-show report describing "illustrations being revealed for the first time worldwide." We lay out the pattern using only confirmed facts.