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Selected articles are available in English. For full coverage, see the Japanese edition.
- NARUTO Card Game is heading to South America — CCXP 2026 (Brazil, December 3–6) and Manga Barcelona 2026 (Spain, December 5–8) went up on November 6, and collating all nine overseas venue pages shows these two are the first with Participant Gifts but no MerchandiseThe English version of the NARUTO Card Game official site published two new event pages at once, both dated November 6, 2026: CCXP 2026 (December 3–6, São Paulo Expo, São Paulo, Brazil) and Manga Barcelona 2026 (December 5–8, Fira Barcelona Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain). Brazil is the first stop in South America, and Spain is new too. Both Tutorial Sessions are free and both list the CP-001 Chakra Card as the participant gift, but how to take part is still "announced soon". Fetching the headings of all nine overseas event pages shows the Merchandise section — the venue sale of the official playmat — still appears on just six, and the combination of Participant Gifts with no Merchandise had never occurred before. We also count the absence of these pages from the other three language versions and from the top-page schedule, and set out how December goes from five events to seven, with three running at once on December 5 and 6.
- The Two Playmats Are Split by Region — Collating BCG Fest Merchandise Across All 10 Checkable Cities: Asia's Seven Carry Only "-Arriving in 2027-" With No Price at All, Orlando and London Only "-Naruto vs Sasuke-". The Detail Page's US$35.00 Is Now US$40.00, and the Missing GBP Price Has AppearedToday we pulled and collated every city merchandise page on the BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 site that can be checked from HTML — ten cities in all. The NARUTO listings split cleanly into three patterns. Asia's seven cities (Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei) carry exactly one item, "Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-", with no price field at all on either the listing or the product detail page. Orlando and London carry exactly one item, "-Naruto vs Sasuke-", and this one has both USD and GBP. The only city where both appear is Tokyo, which prints yen prices on all three NARUTO items yet states on the detail page that "merchandise for this event will be sold only on Premium Bandai. There will be no sales at the venue." On top of that, both price discrepancies we recorded on October 18 and October 25 have been resolved without any notice. The MSRP on the product detail page (827.html) has gone from USD $35.00 to USD $40.00, and the NARUTO playmat — the single item on London's list that lacked a GBP price — now carries £48.00 GBP (VAT included). We also correct our own November 2 article, which said the only confirmable venue opportunity to buy -Arriving in 2027- was the two days of Jump Festa, narrowing it to within Japan. All checked November 6, 2026.
- The Dubai Tutorial Session Opens Today, and It Appears Nowhere in the Official Site's "What's Coming" — Collating All 9 Schedule Rows and 8 Links Across Four Language Versions, Dubai Is the Only One of Seven Overseas Event Pages Not Linked (as of November 6; Two Pages Were Added the Next Day, Making Three Unlinked). The November Bucket Holds Only Lucca, Which Has Already EndedTabletop.me (Dubai, UAE), where the NARUTO Card Game Tutorial Session takes place, opens today, Friday November 6, 2026. So today we collated the SCHEDULE block on the official site front page across all four language versions — Japanese, English, English(Asia) and Traditional Chinese. All four carry the same structure of nine rows and eight links (only the "BCG Fest 26-27" row points at each version's own page), and not one of those links points to tabletopme-2026.php. There are seven venue-specific overseas event pages (Gen Con, NYCC, PAX Aus, SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week, Lucca, Tabletop.me); all seven exist only on the English version and return 404 on jp, asia-en and asia-tc, yet six of them are linked from the schedule, and Dubai is the only one that is not. Beyond links, the string "tabletopme" appears zero times on the Japanese, English(Asia) and Traditional Chinese front pages, and no entry exists in their news indexes either. The only row inside the "2026 / 11" bucket is Lucca (10.28 - 11.01), which has already ended, so as of today the November bucket contains zero things still to come. The roadmap's "upcoming schedule" lists only three items, and Dubai is not there either. On opening day, the Dubai page still reads "Registration ... is planned to take place on-site on the day of the event. Please stay tuned for further details." All checked November 6, 2026. [Update, November 7, 2026] The next day the English version added CCXP 2026 and Manga Barcelona 2026 pages dated November 6, bringing the overseas event pages to nine and the pages unlinked from the schedule to three: Dubai, CCXP and Manga Barcelona. The string tabletopme on the English front page also went from five hits to zero.
- Dubai Opens Tomorrow, and Bandai's Three Card Games at the Same Venue Are Documented Three Different Ways — NARUTO Lists Nothing You Receive, ONE PIECE Spells Out All Four Routes, GUNDAM Has No Event Page at AllTabletop.me (Dubai, UAE), where the NARUTO Card Game Tutorial Session takes place, opens tomorrow, Friday November 6. The NARUTO Card Game official site (English) page has not gained a single word since its October 9 dateline, and carries only six headings. All three of the Participant Gifts, Merchandise and Giveaways sections are absent, and the strings "CP-001" and "Chakra" appear nowhere on the page (collating the headings of all seven venue pages today, Participant Gifts and Merchandise appear on all six other venues, making Dubai the only page missing both). So today we pulled the official pages of the other two Bandai card games at the same venue on the same dates. The ONE PIECE CARD GAME page has 29 headings and spells out all four routes — a demo deck you keep, a promo card for completing a survey, a Welcome Pack for registering on BANDAI TCG+, a sticker for following on social media — plus seven prize tiers for its tournament. The GUNDAM CARD GAME appears in the organiser's tournament add-ons yet has no Dubai entry in the EVENT list on its official site (English, English(Asia) or Japanese). We also checked all seven NARUTO venue pages and found the same "not available to take home" line on every one, separating a title-level policy from a venue constraint. All checked November 5, 2026.
- Breaking: Jump Festa 2027 exhibit details published — CP-001's first Japanese give-away moves up 28 days from January 16 to December 19, the "-Arriving in 2027-" playmat gets its only in-venue sale in Japan, and the reveal lands inside the 16:55 stage slotOn November 2, 2026 the Japanese NARUTO CARD GAME official site published "Jump Festa 2027 Exhibit Information," covering four things: a demo deck tutorial at the booth, the junior-high-and-under goody bag, merchandise, and the stage. Three of them matter in practice. First, both tutorial participants and junior-high-and-under visitors each receive one "CP-001 Chakra Card," which moves the earliest CP-001 give-away in Japan confirmable in official primary sources forward by 28 days — from the first Premier Demo Event date (January 16, 2027) to December 19, 2026. Second, the merchandise is a single item, the "Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-" at ¥3,850 (tax incl.); because the Premier Demo Event sells the "-Naruto vs Sasuke-" playmat on site and BCG Fest Tokyo sells only through Premium Bandai with no venue sales, these two days are the only in-venue chance for -Arriving in 2027- confirmable in Japan. [Correction, November 6, 2026] On publication this read "confirmable anywhere", without limiting it to Japan; the item is listed in the venue merchandise of all seven BCG Fest Asia cities, so we have narrowed the wording to Japan. Third, the page states that "NARUTO CARD GAME's latest information will also be revealed within the NARUTO programme of the Jump Super Stage," pinning the reveal to the 16:55–17:25 slot on December 19 in the card game official site's own words — resolving the point we flagged as unconfirmable on October 21. Admission is strictly by advance application, and the application open to anyone began today, November 2 at 10:00, closing November 16 at 17:59. Watching the stage requires a separate ticket application on top of that.
- Four days out from the Dubai demos, the cost of getting in is finally fixed: entry starts at AED 99 and day one opens at 4pm for just six hours. Yet of the organiser's 21 tournament add-ons, One Piece and GUNDAM are listed and NARUTO is notThe NARUTO Card Game tutorial sessions at Tabletop.me (Dubai, UAE) are four days away, running November 6–8. The English official site's page says only that the session is free, that demo decks cannot be taken home, and that registration is planned to take place on-site on the day — for the price and the opening hours it simply says to see the official website. So we checked the organiser's own site, tabletop.me, and the single ticketing partner it points to, Platinumlist. Entry is AED 99.00 for a 1-Day Ticket (Regular) and AED 199.00 for 3 days (Junior: AED 49.00 / AED 99.00, and "Children 7 years old and below enter for free."), while the hall runs 4:00 PM – 10:00 PM on November 6 and 12:00 PM – 10:00 PM on the 7th and 8th — six hours on day one against ten. One more thing surfaced. The organiser's ticket listing carries 21 tournament add-ons including Bandai's own One Piece Card Game (Treasure Cup) and GUNDAM Card Game (Tournament), but NARUTO CARD GAME appears nowhere in those 21, nor in the games library, nor in the exhibitor line-up. The organiser-side data that was still pre-sale when we wrote on October 10 is now complete, so we record the money, the clock and the listings.
- The NARUTO CARD GAME schedule for November 2026 — 11 of the 16 confirmed items are applications and lottery results. Nothing about release, pre-orders or the card list, making November the month you apply for December's Jump FestaOctober was the month tutorial sessions actually ran, at five venues. November has a different character. As of today (November 1, 2026) there are 16 November items whose dates can be confirmed in primary sources, and 11 of them are application openings, deadlines or lottery results. Only five are events that actually take place (two of those end today), and nothing about the release, product pre-orders, the card list or a new-card reveal slot has been announced for November. The official site says "The next big reveal is coming in December 2026, at Jump Festa!", and the general application to get into that venue opens at 10:00 on November 2 and closes at 17:59 on November 16. We have consolidated dates scattered across four separate primary sources — the official site, the Jump Festa 2027 site, the per-city pages of BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27, and Italian organiser Play-system — into one chronological list, compared the counts against September (8) and October (17), and spelled out what will not happen in November.
- On Lucca's final day, "Sold out" disappeared from the playmat reservation page — all 20 scheduled windows have been overwritten as `Closed`, and the fact that every one sold out can no longer be read from the page. The full 11-day record of 24 windowsOn the final day of Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (November 1, 2026), where NARUTO CARD GAME tutorial sessions are running, we checked Italian organiser Play-system's playmat reservation page. The last four windows, opened on October 25 for collection today, changed from "Sold out" to "Closed," so all 24 windows on the page are now Closed. The reading we have been testing since October 28 — that a window turns Closed once its collection date arrives — now holds without exception across all 20 scheduled windows, and yesterday's prediction that "Sold out" would disappear on November 1 came true exactly. The important part for the record is that because Closed overwrites Sold out, from today the page gives no indication whatsoever that all 20 scheduled windows sold out. We lay out the day-by-day state of all 24 windows from the October 21 reservation opening to today, and set against it the fact that the official site (naruto-cardgame.com) never wrote a single line about window statuses, re-releases or the waiting list for the entire event. The only purchase route left is today's re-release at around 17:00 (around 01:00 JST on November 2).
- Lucca day 4 — only four "Sold out" windows left on the playmat reservation page. The "collection date arrives, status turns Closed" rule now holds for all 16 scheduled windows, and the waiting list stopped updating yesterdayOn day 4 of Lucca Comics & Games 2026 (October 31, 2026), where NARUTO CARD GAME tutorial sessions are running, we checked Italian organiser Play-system's playmat reservation page. The four windows opened on October 24 (collection today, October 31) changed from "Sold out" to "Closed," which means the reading we have been testing since October 28 — that a window turns Closed once its collection date arrives — now holds without exception across all 16 scheduled windows (the October 21–24 batches). A re-release window for 17:00 on October 30 also appeared, bringing the total to 23 windows (19 Closed / 4 Sold out). The important part is that the only remaining Sold out windows are the four opened on October 25, for collection on the final day, November 1. The page states "Reservations will open progressively from October 21 to October 25, 2026," so the scheduled one-week-ahead releases ended on October 25. No more purchase windows will be added; the only route left is the roughly 17:00 re-release on each event day. On top of that, the waiting list page's announced final update date (Friday, October 30) has passed, so positions will not move for the remaining two days.
- NARUTO Card Game's Bangkok appearance opens to the public today — admission is a 200-baht day pass (VAT incl.). But the organiser's own site gives two closing times, 8:00pm and 7:00pm, and the NARUTO official page carries not one line about getting inThe window the NARUTO Card Game's English (Asia) official site printed for gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 in Bangkok — "October 30 - November 1, 2026" — starts today. Because the NARUTO page says nothing at all about admission, prices or opening hours, we read the organiser's own pages in full. Public visitors enter the entertainment area, open for those three days in Exhibition Halls 2-4 on the G Floor, on a 200-baht 1-Day Pass or a 300-baht 1-Day Fast Pass, both inclusive of 7% VAT. The closing time, however, appears twice with different values on the organiser's site: the Dates & Opening Times page lists "10:00am - 8:00pm" for all three days, while the Tickets page says the 1-Day Pass is valid "from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM". That is an hour apart. We also confirmed that the industry-only business area began yesterday, October 29, that a business visitor ticket does not get you into the public hall, and that children under 110cm are free. The NARUTO Card Game's booth number, whether tutorial sessions will run, and whether anything is sold there remain unwritten anywhere as of today.
- NARUTO Card Game is going to Bangkok — gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 (October 30 – November 1), but the only thing the official page offers is a Facebook-follow logo sticker, and the announcement exists on just one of the five language versionsThe English(Asia) version of the NARUTO Card Game official site carries an October 23, 2026 announcement that the game is coming to gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026. The period is October 30 – November 1 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok. The same URL returns 404 on the Japanese, English and Traditional Chinese versions — it exists only on English(Asia). And on that same version, neither the top-page SCHEDULE (eight items) nor the ABOUT-page Roadmap mentions gamescom at all. The dates are written differently from the organiser, too: gamescom.asia puts the whole show at October 29 – November 1, with the business area on October 29–30 and the public entertainment area on October 30 – November 1. The NARUTO period matches the latter exactly. The only NARUTO activity stated on the official page is a logo sticker for following the official Facebook page — no tutorial session, no BANDAI TCG+ registration, no CP-001 Chakra Card. Of the 25 events we have recorded, three list neither a demo session nor CP-001 — this one, BCG Fest Shanghai and Jump Festa 2027 — and all three for different reasons.
- A waiting-list position checker appears for the Lucca demos — enter your Bandai ID, updated Tuesday and Friday mornings, final update October 30. All 20 playmat reservation windows are now sold outChecking the Play-system pages linked from the NARUTO Card Game English official site's Lucca page today (October 26, 2026), two days before the event opens, a "WAITING LIST POSITION CHECKING" button has been added at the very top, linking to a dedicated page titled "Naruto Demo - Waiting list". Entering your Bandai ID (Bandai Membership Number) returns your demo reservation and your position on the waiting list, and the page states that the list is updated on Tuesday and Friday mornings with the final update on 30/10/2026 — day three of a five-day event. The official site itself says nothing about a waiting list. We also record that all 20 playmat reservation windows have gone to Sold out, leaving only the roughly 17:00 daily re-release, and that this same page calls Ninjutsu "the new mechanic" while spelling it both NinJutsu and Ninjutsu.
- Four registrations land on October 25 — Lucca's last four windows and BCG Fest London's opening collide at the same instant, and Orlando's on-sale time is written two ways on one pageFour NARUTO CARD GAME registrations fall on Sunday, October 25, 2026: the final four playmat booking windows for Lucca Comics & Games, the opening of admission registration for BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in London, the ticket on-sale for the Orlando stop, and the closing of the Kuala Lumpur Teaching Session lottery. European and UK summer time also end in the early hours of that day, which shifts the conversions. Lucca's first window and London's opening land on exactly the same instant, and Lucca's windows move one hour later than they were through October 24. We also confirmed that the Orlando Pre-Registration page gives the on-sale time as both "10:30am Pacific Time" and "10:30am PST", while a note at the foot of the same page says all dates on the site are local times at the location — and October 25, 2026 falls inside US daylight saving time (PDT), which does not end until November 1. All checked October 24, 2026.
- BCG Fest 26-27 Shanghai is December 26–27, 2026 — the last of the 11 cities to get dates. NARUTO is a listed brand, but has zero products, tournaments or giveawaysShanghai was the only BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 stop still showing nothing but "December 2026". The official site now lists it as December 26–27, 2026, which completes the dates for all 11 cities worldwide. The Shanghai page sits on a different domain from the other ten, in Simplified Chinese only. NARUTO Card Game is listed there as one of five participating brands (as 火影忍者卡牌对战) with its own contact address — yet the products, tournaments and giveaway pages each cover only four brands, with no NARUTO entry at all. The venue is still given as just "Shanghai", and none of the demo-session application details published for the seven Asian cities appear (all checked October 23, 2026).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".