BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27: seven cities now have a NARUTO CARD GAME page

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, Bandai published NARUTO CARD GAME pages for those stops one at a time. As of September 2, 2026 there are seven, spread across three locales of the official site. Four cities on the Fest calendar still have none.

All eleven cities

The Asian pages, and the word they use

The five Asian stops are covered on Bandai's Asia English site, except Hong Kong S.A.R., which is 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 page adds one thing the others 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 seven pages say

Across all seven, the same gaps repeat:

• No times. Not one page gives an opening hour, a closing hour or a session schedule.
• No registration steps for the Naruto activity. Five pages assert a Pre-Registered Side Event without linking an application, a window or a deadline.
• 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. Nothing is named or priced anywhere.
• No booth numbers, no capacity, 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 five Asian pages carry no admission line at all.

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 and Singapore pages list the NARUTO CARD GAME alongside the other BANDAI CARD GAMES titles taking part, Battle Spirits, the DIGIMON CARD GAME, the ONE PIECE CARD GAME, UNION ARENA, the DRAGON BALL SUPER CARD GAME Fusion World and the GUNDAM CARD GAME. 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 four cities with no page

Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Shanghai sit on the Fest calendar under December 2026 with no exact dates and no venue. Tokyo sits under early 2027 on the same terms. None of the four 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 that as a no. Bandai says commemorative items at each location feature the titles taking part at that location, which is a plain statement that the lineup differs by city, and it publishes no per city title list. The seven pages that exist arrived in three batches, on August 06, August 21 and August 28. 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: five Asian stops from October to early 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.