NARUTO CARD GAME in Europe: SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca

Bandai has given the NARUTO CARD GAME's three European stops pages of their own. The Event Information pages for SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games are each dated September 4, 2026. Before that, each stop was a single line on the roadmap.

The pages share a template. They fix what participants receive and what is on sale, and all three defer the two things a visitor most needs: how to get into a session and how to buy the playmat.

The three stops side by side

SPIEL Essen and Paris Games Week run on the same four days. Lucca opens three days after they close.

Each stop has its own page here: SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week and Lucca Comics & Games.

What all three pages say

The session rules are identical. Admission is free, entry to the host event is required, demo decks are not available to take home, and each page carries the line "You may only participate in 1 tutorial session" throughout that event.

The participant gift is the CP-001 Chakra Card, with the condition printed on every page: "Only participants registered to the 'NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL' on TCG+ and who complete a survey after the Tutorial Session are eligible to receive the above items." Prizes are limited to one per person. The versions of the card are covered in the CP-001 guide.

The Official Playmat is listed at $35 (+tax), one per person, "in limited quantities each day". The MSRP is printed in US dollars on all three pages, for shows in Germany, France and Italy. No euro price is given.

Where Lucca differs

The Essen and Paris pages end with a Giveaways section: follow one of Bandai's social channels, or register the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+, "and receive a free sticker!" The Lucca page has no Giveaways section and no Logo Sticker anywhere on it. Bandai does not comment on the difference.

Against New York and Melbourne

The same at all five autumn stops: free sessions, one per person, CP-001 with the TCG+ and survey condition, and the playmat at $35 (+tax).

Different in Europe:

• Sign-up. New York Comic Con uses session tickets handed out each morning at booth #3001, and PAX Aus took registrations on TCG+ from September 20. Both methods appeared between our September 2 and October 5 checks of those pages. The European pages name no method.
• Booth. New York's page names booth #2705. The European pages name a venue and no stand.
• Sticker as a gift. In New York and Melbourne the Logo Sticker is on the participant gift list beside CP-001. In Europe it is not.
• Playmat purchase. New York uses a retail ticket and Melbourne a raffle among tutorial participants. Europe: to be announced.

Still to be announced

How to participate, session times and capacity, how to buy the playmat, and on Bandai's side a stand for any of the three. The organisers' own listings fill part of that last gap. SPIEL's exhibitor list has a Bandai TCG entry at stand 5J500 in Hall 5, without naming the NARUTO CARD GAME, and Lucca's official map has an entry labelled "Pad. Santa Maria 1 - Naruto Card Game". Bandai's pages give neither a stand nor a pavilion number.

Every page carries the notice that "the contents of the activities may change without notice."

After Lucca

London follows. Bandai lists a NARUTO Tutorial Session at BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in London, January 15 to 17, 2027. The full calendar is on the events page, and the road to Summer 2027 is tracked on release date.