BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27: NARUTO CARD GAME pages for nine cities

Update, October 5, 2026. Kuala Lumpur and Taipei now have NARUTO CARD GAME pages, both dated September 04, 2026, which takes the count from seven to nine. Kuala Lumpur runs December 12 to 13, 2026 at IOI Grand Exhibition & Convention Centre, and Taipei runs December 19 to 20, 2026 at the venue Bandai writes as World Trade Center. Both list a Teaching Session. The Fest's own site has also added registration windows for the Asian Teaching Sessions and a Tokyo page that lists the title. The table and text below are revised to match, and our report on the two new pages has the detail.

Bandai announced BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 on July 29, 2026, the same day it revealed the NARUTO CARD GAME's rules. It is a multi title festival for Bandai's card game brands, running, in Bandai's own phrasing, in eleven locations across the world, with activities for each title and products for sale at each region's event.

Through August and into September, Bandai published NARUTO CARD GAME pages for those stops one at a time. On September 2, 2026 there were seven. As of October 5, 2026 there are nine, spread across three locales of the official site. Two cities on the Fest calendar still have none.

All eleven cities

The Asian pages, and the word they use

The seven Asian stops are covered on Bandai's Asia English site, except Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taipei, which are on the Traditional Chinese site. Each page is short and follows the same shape: BANDAI CARD GAMES titles are gathered in the city, there will be events and products for sale for each title at the venue, then a date, a venue, an address, and under Information on Event exactly two lines, Pre-Registered Side Event and Teaching Session, sitting behind one Learn More link. Event Commemorative Items follows as a heading with a second link and no list. A notice at the foot asks readers to read the BANDAI CARD GAMES Official Events Disclaimer before joining.

The Hong Kong and Taipei pages add one thing the Asia English pages do not: a rules section saying the event will be run according to the game rules, and asking attendees to check the rules and how to play before taking part.

The English pages for Orlando and London use different wording for what looks like the same table. There, the listing reads Main Event and Tutorial Session. Bandai has not said whether Teaching Session and Tutorial Session describe different activities or are two house styles, so each of our event pages uses the word its source uses.

What none of the nine pages say

Across all nine NARUTO pages, the same gaps repeat:

• No times. Not one page gives an opening hour, a closing hour or a session schedule.
• No registration steps on the page itself. Seven pages assert a Pre-Registered Side Event and put the detail behind a Learn More link to the Fest site.
• No commemorative item detail. Event Commemorative Items is a heading and a link on the Asian pages and is marked Coming Soon on Orlando and London.
• No booth numbers, no age rules, no per person session limits.

Admission is the one field that varies. Orlando shows Coming Soon. London shows Pre-Registrationed Tournament Ticket Required, Bandai's spelling. The seven Asian pages carry no admission line at all.

Registration windows on the Fest site

The Learn More links lead to a NARUTO CARD GAME page for each city on the Fest's own site. As of October 5, 2026 the seven Asian ones each list a Teaching Session, a registration period through the BANDAI TCG+ app, an announcement date and a prize, the CP-001 Chakra Card:

Singapore's page also prints a capacity of 192. The Orlando and London pages on the Fest site say only "Main Event, Tutorial Session" and "Details will be updated in the future."

What the Fest's own site adds

The Fest site is the more procedural document, and it is where the practical detail lives. Its Jakarta, Manila, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Taipei pages list the NARUTO CARD GAME alongside the other BANDAI CARD GAMES titles taking part: the DIGIMON CARD GAME, the ONE PIECE CARD GAME, UNION ARENA, the DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World and the GUNDAM CARD GAME everywhere, and Battle Spirits everywhere except Manila. Each says taking part requires applying in advance through the BANDAI TCG+ app, and that a face photo registered in the app must be verified before an application goes through, a check the pages warn can take a week or longer. Each describes commemorative products on sale and a commemorative item handed to attendees as they enter the venue.

That is the one thing a reader can act on today. The app account and the verified photo can be sorted weeks ahead. Everything Naruto specific waits on Bandai.

The two cities with no page

Shanghai sits on the Fest calendar under December 2026 with no exact dates and no venue. The Fest schedule links it to a separate Simplified Chinese site that we could not read.

Tokyo has moved. The Fest site now gives February 20 to 21 and March 6 to 7, 2027, and its Japanese Tokyo page lists the NARUTO CARD GAME among the exhibiting titles on both weekends, at the TOC exhibition hall in February and at Ikebukuro Sunshine City, Exhibition Hall C, in March. It does not say what the NARUTO activity is.

Neither city has a NARUTO CARD GAME page on any locale of Bandai's Naruto site, including the Japanese one, whose Fest announcement links to the Fest site and to no individual city at all.

We are not reading the Shanghai gap as a no. The nine pages that exist arrived in four batches, dated August 06, August 21, August 28 and September 04. More could follow. That is a pattern, not a promise.

Why any of this matters before Summer 2027

Nothing at any Fest stop is a product launch. The NARUTO CARD GAME has no booster, no starter deck, no set code and no announced price. The only price Bandai has published for anything is the $35 plus tax Official Playmat arriving in 2027, and the only card code in public is CP-001. Release is Summer 2027, simultaneous worldwide.

What the Fest stops are is the pre release teaching campaign, and the calendar now shows its shape: seven Asian stops from October to December 2026, then Orlando and London eight days apart in January 2027, the same month Bandai's in store tutorial sessions start rolling out at local game stores. Convention demos reach people already at a convention. The in store phase reaches the locals scene that decides whether a competitive card game takes root. January 2027 is where those two meet.

Our events page carries every stop as Bandai confirms it, release date tracks the roadmap, rules covers how the game is played, and what we know keeps the open questions listed in one place.