Bandai, June 2027
Every NARUTO CARD GAME story and guide: Bandai's announcements, products, events and the road to the June 2027 release, each dated and sourced. Latest: .
Anime
A four-episode NARUTO x NINKŪ crossover is the new Naruto TV anime, announced on October 10, 2026 with Kishimoto and Kiriyama supervising and no air date. Here is what is confirmed, what is only reported, and where each of the four Naruto card lines stands when the attention arrives.
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Events
Bandai's late October changes: a Bangkok convention stop on October 30 to November 1 with a Facebook logo sticker, the first Tokyo Fest page on the NARUTO site, a correction that removes the Chakra Set from the Orlando and London Fests, and admission fields filled in for both.
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Events
Bandai's three European pages now carry registration links, booth numbers and playmat rules, and a new page puts the NARUTO CARD GAME at Tabletop.me in Dubai on November 6 to 8.
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Release
Bandai's New York Comic Con report narrows the release to June 2027 and names the launch products: Starter Decks for Naruto, Sasuke and Gaara, and Booster Pack 01 Enter: NARUTO UZUMAKI!. Premier Demo Events, two priced products and a Jump Festa reveal follow.
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Events
Bandai's Premier Demo Event page sets two waves for February and March 2027, application through BANDAI TCG+ from January, and the first priced products. Its images show four new Chakra cards and the first Summon card.
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Marketplace
TCGplayer, a third-party marketplace, opened a NARUTO CARD GAME product line on September 22. It lists two CP-001 promos and no Bandai product.
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Events
Bandai has moved PAX Aus tutorial registration from the booth to BANDAI TCG+ and turned the $35 playmat into a daily raffle for session participants.
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Events
Bandai has rewritten its New York Comic Con page. Tutorial sessions now need a ticket from booth #3001, the playmat needs its own, and a panel is set.
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Events
Bandai has pages for three European stops in late October. Gifts and the playmat price are set, session sign-up is not, and Lucca's page has no sticker.
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Events
Bandai now lists a NARUTO CARD GAME Teaching Session at the Kuala Lumpur and Taipei Fest stops in December 2026. Registration for both is open.
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Events
Updated October 5: Bandai replaced on-the-day registration at both shows. NYCC uses morning tickets from booth #3001, and PAX Aus registers on BANDAI TCG+.
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Promos
Bandai is putting a NARUTO CARD GAME Chakra card into a Major League Baseball stadium on September 8. It is the third version of CP-001 to be announced in six weeks, and the first NARUTO CARD GAME promo handed out somewhere that has nothing to do with tabletop gaming.
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Retail
The trade plumbing for a game that does not exist yet. Bandai's retailer page names sixteen official distributors across North America, Europe, Oceania, Latin America and the Middle East, and confirms that stores cannot order anything yet.
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Guide
Registering the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on Bandai's BANDAI TCG+ app is the documented condition for the CP-001 promo at New York Comic Con and PAX Aus. It takes five taps and a BANDAI NAMCO ID. Here is what each screen looks like, and what the app deliberately does not do.
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Events
Bandai's eleven city festival runs from October 2026 to March 2027. The NARUTO CARD GAME has a dedicated page for nine stops. Shanghai and Tokyo have none.
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Gen Con
The first people outside Bandai are playing the NARUTO CARD GAME this week in Indianapolis. Tutorial sessions run through August 2, they're free, and everyone who sits down walks away with CP-001, the first Chakra card ever printed.
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Reveal
Bandai put the NARUTO CARD GAME's rules, its first cards and a full pre-release roadmap into public view on July 29: five card types, a 57-card deck (1 Leader, 50 main deck, 5 Chakra, 1 Summon), Leaders on 15 Life, and a Chakra system that refreshes instead of burning out.
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Gen Con 2026
The full card reveal lands July 29, and the first public tutorial sessions run at Gen Con Indianapolis July 30 to August 2. Here's exactly what's happening, when, and how to get a seat.
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News
On the day the NARUTO CARD GAME was announced, Bandai published three sentences from Masashi Kishimoto and a drawing of Naruto and Sasuke each holding a card. Both still sit on the game's homepage, and both are still the only direct word from the author about the project.
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Announcement
Bandai Card Games has revealed a brand-new NARUTO CARD GAME: a competitive strategy TCG launching worldwide in 2027, with a special illustration from Masashi Kishimoto marking the announcement.
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Guide
Bandai has named sixteen distributors across five regions and nothing you can buy before June 2027. Country by country, who will supply your local store, what the events sell, and how to spot a placeholder listing.
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Guide
Players who tried the demo keep calling Bandai's game Yu-Gi-Oh with a resource system. Here is where the comparison holds and where it breaks, rule by published rule.
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Guide
Three pre-constructed Starter Decks release in June 2027, built around Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha and Gaara as Leaders. This page holds every sentence Bandai has published about them, the two Leaders we have already seen, and the blanks that are still blank.
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Guide
Bandai has announced no digital version of the NARUTO CARD GAME. What exists today: Bandai's event app, three fan-built simulators and deck builders, and the card pool they all share.
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Guide
You cannot buy a NARUTO CARD GAME deck until June 2027, but you can play one at a convention this autumn, in a store from January, and Bandai plans to give a million demo decks away in spring. This page lists each route with its dates and conditions.
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Guide
The Chakra Set is the first NARUTO CARD GAME product with a price: 20 USD or 1,650 yen for six cards, five Chakra and one Summon, sold at Premier Demo Events and two Fest stops before the game exists. Here is what is in the box, who can buy it and what Bandai has not said.
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Guide
The first NARUTO CARD GAME booster releases in June 2027 with the three Starter Decks and draws characters from both NARUTO and NARUTO: SHIPPUDEN. Its name has three spellings, its set code has none, and its box configuration is unpublished. Here is what is real.
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Guide
Every Premier Demo Event seat is applied for in Bandai's BANDAI TCG+ app, and each region has its own window and its own rule: a lottery in Japan, a face photo in Asia, a January opening in the English regions. This is the step-by-step, with what to set up now so you are not locked out.
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Guide
Nobody can review a game that is not out until June 2027. Here is what people who played the demo liked, what worries them, and who they are.
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Guide
The two games share a publisher and a win condition, and almost nothing else that has been published. Here is the line-by-line comparison, with the Naruto side marked where Bandai has stated nothing at all.
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Guide
Two different companies are selling two different Naruto card games under names that are almost impossible to tell apart in a search box. One of them you can buy today. The other does not exist as a product yet.
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Guide
You can find NARUTO CARD GAME booster boxes listed for pre-order today, with prices attached. Bandai has named three Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01 for June 2027, but no set code, box configuration or price. Both of those sentences are true, and this page explains how.
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Guide
Yes, and that is the easy half of the answer. Five separate Naruto card lines exist, made by four companies over twenty-four years, and the one most people are searching for does not go on sale until June 2027.
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Guide
Bandai's own title list names seven card games. One of them does not go on sale for another ten months. Here is the full roster, what each one runs on, and what the GUNDAM CARD GAME launch tells you about the shape of the NARUTO one.
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Guide
UNION ARENA carries dozens of anime licences and Naruto is not one of them, in English or in Japanese. Bandai's answer to Naruto was a standalone game with its own engine, and it does not arrive until June 2027.
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Guide
CP-001 is the only NARUTO CARD GAME card with a product code, nine months before there is a product. Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME site lists seven distributions, from July 30 to November 1, 2026, and the conditions attached to each one differ.
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