NARUTO CARD GAME at NYCC 2026: tickets, two booths and the panel

New York Comic Con opens on Thursday, October 8, and Bandai's page for the NARUTO CARD GAME at the show no longer says what it said a month ago.

What changed

When we read the page on September 2 it carried one line on getting a seat: registration for the Tutorial Sessions was "planned to take place on-site on the day of the event", with a request to stay tuned. On October 5 that line was gone. In its place:

A tutorial session ticket is required to participate in a Tutorial Session. Tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis each morning when the venue opens at [BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001]. Please note that this is a different location from [BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705], where the Tutorial Sessions will take place.

Bandai does not date its edits, and the page still shows its original post date, August 07, 2026, so the change can only be placed between our September 2 and October 5 checks. The same revision added a retail ticket for the playmat, an event map, a Logo Sticker giveaway for registering the TCG+ channel, and a panel.

What to do on the day

1. Go to BANDAI Namco Naruto Booth #3001 when the venue opens and collect a tutorial session ticket. They are first-come, first-served, each morning.
2. Play the session at BANDAI CARD GAMES Booth #2705. It is free, demo decks stay at the booth, and the limit is one session per person for the whole convention.
3. Complete the survey afterwards. The CP-001 Chakra Card and Logo Sticker go only to participants registered to the NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL on BANDAI TCG+ who complete it. Register before you travel, using our TCG+ walkthrough.

Bandai says "when the venue opens" without a time. NYCC's hours page lists the show floor opening at 10:00 AM on all four days. A NYCC badge is required.

The playmat now needs its own ticket

The Official Playmat is still listed at $35 (+tax), one per person, in limited quantities each day. The new condition is that a retail ticket is required to purchase a Playmat, with tickets distributed first-come, first-served each morning when the venue opens at Booth #2705.

So two different tickets are released at the same moment at two different booths. At Gen Con the right to buy the playmat was earned by completing a tutorial. The New York page does not link the two tickets in any way.

The panel: NARUTO: What's Next?

Bandai lists a panel for Saturday, October 10, 2026, at North-Level 5: Empire Stage, with voice actors Junko Takeuchi (Naruto Uzumaki) and Noriaki Sugiyama (Sasuke Uchiha). Its description promises "the latest updates on the anime, the NARUTO CARD GAME, and other exciting new projects" and a chance to "be among the first to see the new roadmap for the future of the NARUTO universe".

Bandai's page gives no time. New York Comic Con's own listing puts the panel at 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, which is Eastern time, mentions a "special door giveaway, while supplies last", and tags it Reservation Needed. NYCC's reservations page says Empire Stage reservations are first-come, first-served, that holders should be on Level 5 at least 35 minutes before the start, and that standby lines will be very limited and not guaranteed. Reservations opened on September 10, and we could not see whether seats remain.

There is a way to watch without a seat. The franchise's own site, naruto-official.com, posted on 09/29/2026 that "a simultaneous worldwide live stream of this stage has been confirmed to start at 6:00 AM on Sunday, October 11th (Japan Time) on the official NARUTO / BORUTO YouTube channel", the same hour as 5:00 PM Saturday in New York. The link it gives is youtube.com/live/G2B8oLsZNeU. The same post says the stage will unveil "the latest information on the NARUTO CARD GAME" and names a third guest, Tominaga, Executive Producer at Studio Pierrot / PIERROT FILMS.

What Bandai has not said

• Session times or length. The page gives neither.
• How many tickets per day, for the tutorial or for the playmat.
• Whether one person can collect both tickets.
• Whether the playmat is handed over at the show. The product is still named "Arriving in 2027".
• What the panel will show. The page names the anime, the card game and a roadmap, and nothing about their contents. Bandai's welcome page says only "More new information will be revealed at New York Comic Con!"

The full walkthrough, with the map described, is on our NYCC 2026 event page. The overlapping Melbourne show changed too: see PAX Aus registration and the playmat raffle. The promo card is tracked in the CP-001 guide, and the rest of the tour is on the events calendar.