Naruto Card Game Teaching Sessions: How to Get a Seat

NARUTO CARD GAME does not go on sale until Summer 2027. Bandai has announced no set, no card product and no price for one, so every route the company has published to actually sitting down and playing the thing is a demo table at an event.

Until this month, BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 was the vaguest of those routes: eleven stops, Naruto on the title roster, and nothing else. On 6 and 21 August that turned into real pages. Four of the eleven stops now carry a NARUTO CARD GAME event page with a date and a venue. Three of those four — Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong — add an application window, a lottery-result date and a prize; Orlando's page has none of the three yet. Two of the windows are open right now, and Jakarta's closes on 24 August 2026.

The four stops that have a Naruto session

Bandai runs the fest site in three language editions — English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese. Across all three, only four of the eleven stops have a venue site live at all as of 23 August 2026, and every one of those four lists a NARUTO CARD GAME session: a Teaching Session at Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong, and a Tutorial Session at Orlando.

Two things about that table are easy to miss. The Hong Kong page exists only in Traditional Chinese — there is no English version of the Hong Kong venue site, and the NARUTO CARD GAME site carries the Hong Kong announcement on its Traditional Chinese edition rather than either English one. And Orlando, the single stop in the Americas, is the one with the least on it: its Naruto page lists "Tutorial Session" under Main Event and then says details will be updated in the future. No window, no prize, no admission price.

Three of the four are a lottery, not a queue

This is the part worth internalising if you were planning to turn up and put your name down. Bandai's pre-registration page for Jakarta says the event "is open only to participants who have been selected through the lottery. Same-day registration or entry will not be available." Manila's page repeats it word for word. Hong Kong's page uses the same structure in Chinese, with a 抽籤結果公布 — lottery results announcement — dated from 15 October 2026.

Applications go through BANDAI TCG+, Bandai's account app, and each stop has its own entry link. Jakarta's and Manila's are live; Hong Kong's registration button is present but not yet wired up, and its page says registration is scheduled to open on 1 September 2026.

The three windows chain rather than run back to back. Jakarta's and Manila's overlap between 21 and 24 August, and Manila's and Hong Kong's overlap between 1 and 3 September. Jakarta's is the one with a deadline in front of it: it opened on 10 August and closes on 24 August 2026.

The face photo is a hard prerequisite in Asia

The hard blocker is not the lottery. It is this, from the pre-registration pages for both Jakarta and Manila:

A face photo must be registered in advance to participate in this event. If your profile does not display "Face Photo Verified" during the application period, you will not be able to apply for this event. The verification process may take one week or longer, so please register your face photo well in advance.

So the gate is not the application date — it is the date your TCG+ profile finishes verification, which Bandai itself puts at a week or more. With Jakarta closing on 24 August, an unverified account starting today is not obviously going to make it.

Two more clauses from the same pages. Minors cannot register a face photo, but Bandai says they remain eligible and should apply on their own account anyway. And Bandai may check ID at the reception desk against the TCG+ account; participation rights are explicitly non-transferable, which is a resale answer as much as an admin one.

Orlando is different, but not open-door. Its pre-registration page still says the event "will require application in advance to attend" and that same-day visitors will not be able to participate, and it carries the TCG+ account requirement, the ID check and the non-transferable line. What it does not carry is a face-photo requirement or any lottery language.

The admission-ticket wording does not line up

The Jakarta and Manila pre-registration pages split applications into two types, "Events for each title" and an admission ticket. Then they add this note:

Please note that admission tickets allow access only to merchandise sales and teaching sessions. Participants with admission tickets will not be able to join any other pre-registration events.

Read literally, that puts teaching sessions inside the plain admission tier. But the Naruto page for each stop still files its Teaching Session under a pre-registered heading and gives it its own TCG+ entry link with its own window and its own results date. Bandai has not reconciled the two statements anywhere I can find on either site. If you want the session, the Naruto page's own link is the route the Naruto page tells you to take.

Manila's page calls the same event two things

Small, but it is the kind of mismatch worth pinning down before you book travel. On the fest's Manila page, the Naruto block is indexed under the heading Pre-Registered Event and then the section itself is headed On-Site Registration Side Event. The NARUTO CARD GAME site's own Manila news page calls it a Pre-Registered Side Event.

Jakarta and Hong Kong use the pre-registered wording in both places. Everything inside Manila's block — an application window, a lottery-results date, a TCG+ entry link — describes pre-registration. I would treat it as pre-registered and screenshot the page, but Bandai has not corrected either label.

Naruto is still not in the door giveaway

Each fest stop hands attendees a commemorative item as they enter the venue, and the lists are published per venue. Jakarta's and Hong Kong's each cover six titles — Battle Spirits, Digimon, One Piece, Union Arena, Dragon Ball Super and Gundam. Manila's and Orlando's cover five of those, dropping Battle Spirits. NARUTO CARD GAME is on none of the four lists.

That has not changed since the fest was announced, and it puts CP-001 in a different bucket from the other titles' promos: it is a Teaching Session prize at three stops, not a walk-in item at any of them.

The playmat is on sale at three of the four

There is now one purchasable NARUTO CARD GAME item at the fest. The NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027- is listed under SPECIAL PRODUCTS on the Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong product pages, with contents given as "Playmat x 1" and the usual limited-quantity note. Orlando's product page has a Naruto filter button and nothing behind it.

The fest pages publish no price for it. The figure Bandai has published elsewhere is $35 plus tax, on its New York Comic Con and PAX Aus event pages — different shows in different markets, so do not assume it carries to Jakarta, Manila or Hong Kong.

The prize art on the Asia pages is Japanese

The prize image on the Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong pages is the Japanese printing of CP-001. The card is titled チャクラカード, and its rules line reads チャクラを使用する際、このカードを裏向きにする。 — the Japanese of the English card's "When using Chakra, turn this card face-down."

Everything else matches the English copy Bandai has shown for the North American events: same Itokazu illustration of Naruto and Sasuke mid-clash, same SAMPLE watermark, same NOT FOR SALE line down the right margin. Bandai does not state which language version is distributed at which stop, and all three Asia pages use this one image, so treat the artwork as a placeholder rather than a promise about what lands in your hand.

The seven stops with nothing published

The remaining seven stops have a date on the fest's front page and no venue site in any language edition, which means no Naruto page, no window and no prize.

Three of the eleven stops firmed up their dates this month. On 6 August the fest's front page still read "October 2026" for Manila, "November 2026" for Hong Kong and "January 2027" for Orlando; all three now carry exact days.

What Bandai still has not said

• Orlando's terms. Admission price, application window, whether the Tutorial Session needs its own entry, and whether it carries a prize at all. The page says details are coming.
• Capacity. No stop publishes how many seats a Teaching Session has, how long one runs, or how many run per day.
• What you play with. Nothing published says whether the fest demo decks match the ones Bandai used at Gen Con.
• The other seven stops. Whether Naruto appears at any of them, and in what form.
• Language. Which printing of CP-001 goes out where.

If you are in Jakarta, the clock is the story: the window shuts on 24 August. Everywhere else you have weeks — but if you do not already have a verified face photo on a BANDAI TCG+ account, that is the job to do first, because Bandai's own estimate of the review is a week or more.