Two Naruto TCGs at Paris Games Week and Lucca 2026

Two companies that make unrelated Naruto trading card games have booked the same two European shows. At Paris Games Week, 22 to 25 October, Bandai's NARUTO CARD GAME is at booth E8 and Cicaboom's NARUTO Mythos TCG is at booth E30, both inside Paris Expo Porte de Versailles. At Lucca Comics & Games, 28 October to 1 November, Bandai sets up in Piazza Santa Maria and Cicaboom in the Padiglione Carducci. Both games are at SPIEL Essen as well, the same four days as Paris, but only Bandai has a stand of its own there: Cicaboom's Events page lists a Mythos promo at JK Entertainment's booth.

They are not offering the same thing. Bandai's game does not release until June 2027, so its tables are tutorials played with demo decks you hand back, and seats are booked in advance: registration for SPIEL Essen, Paris and Lucca opened on Wednesday 14 October. Cicaboom's game has been on European shelves since 13 March 2026, so its booths are about promo cards. One of them, at Lucca, is a card Cicaboom bills as the first NARUTO Mythos Shippuden TCG card, and it is printed with two rules terms that no published Mythos document defines.

Everything below was first read from Bandai's event pages, Cicaboom's Events page and card gallery, and the official SPIEL and Paris Games Week exhibitor lists on 10 October 2026. Cicaboom's Events page, the SPIEL exhibitor list, Bandai's English news pages and the play-system.eu pages its Lucca page links to were read again on 25 October 2026, the last day of SPIEL and Paris Games Week, and the SPIEL, Lucca and news-feed details below follow that second read. Both companies also listed New York Comic Con, 8 to 11 October, which is not covered here. Bandai's 13 October report from the show gives its game a June 2027 release, with three Starter Decks and a first Booster Pack, and our June 2027 launch line-up guide covers it.

Who is where, show by show

Bandai's pages say every activity needs the host show's own admission ticket, and list the tutorials themselves as free. Cicaboom's Events page publishes no admission or booking terms for its Paris or Lucca booths.

Bandai's seats are booked online, from 14 October

When Bandai first published its Essen, Paris and Lucca pages on 4 September, our breakdown of those pages reported free, on-site, day-of registration. When our SPIEL Essen guide first read the Essen page on 28 September, participation details were still to be "announced at a later date". All three pages, still dated 4 September, now carry an advance booking window instead:

All three are first come, first served. On 10 October the Essen and Paris buttons led to Weeztix shop pages listing one "Naruto - Demo Timeslots" event for each show day, 22 to 25 October, each split into free hourly slots starting from 10:00, with none at 14:00. Lucca's "Registration Page" button, unlinked on 10 October, now leads to a page on play-system.eu with a link to the BANDAI TCG+ event for each session. That page puts each session at 30 to 45 minutes, starting every 45 minutes, with a waiting list for each one.

Ignore the "CET" on the first two. Bandai's Essen and Paris pages write 6:00 p.m. CET, but Germany and France were still on summer time on 14 October; the clocks went back on Sunday 25 October, the last day of both shows. Read literally, 6:00 p.m. CET would have been 7:00 p.m. on a local clock. Both Weeztix shops were set to release every one of their slots at 18:00 UTC+2, which is CEST and 16:00 UTC, and Bandai's own entry on the official Paris Games Week exhibitor list says registrations open "at 06:00 PM CEST on October 14". So the opening that counted in Essen and Paris was 6:00 p.m. local time; Bandai's pages still say CET. The same exhibitor entry adds that a BANDAI TCG+ account is not required to book.

Each page carries the same warning: "Players may register for a maximum of one event. Any attempts to circumvent this limit will result in exclusion from all demo events." Each also limits you to one tutorial session for the whole show.

The participation gift at all three is the CP-001 Chakra Card, the giveaway card number Bandai has used since Gen Con (Gen Con's was labelled "Gen Con 2026 Ver."; these three pages name no version), on the same terms as Gen Con's: you must be registered to the "NARUTO TCG UPDATES CHANNEL" on BANDAI TCG+ and complete a survey after your session. That channel is a separate sign-up from the tutorial booking. Bandai's own page for it says it "is not for event participation at a venue", so joining it does not get you a seat, and booking a seat does not join you to it. It costs nothing to sort out before your session.

The playmat works three different ways

Bandai sells one product at each of these stops, the NARUTO CARD GAME Official Playmat -Arriving in 2027-, listed at "$35 (+tax)": a dollar price, on pages for shows in Germany, France and Italy. How you get the chance to buy one differs at every stop:

Lucca's release schedule is spelled out on the page: tickets for Wednesday 28 October go live on Wednesday 21 October, Thursday 29 October's on Thursday 22 October, and so on through the five show days, which puts the last release on Sunday 25 October. You can reserve one playmat across the whole show. Bandai's page now links its "Playmat Ticket Page" to play-system.eu, which opens four reservation windows on each release day, at 10:00, 12:00, 14:00 and 16:00 Rome time, and prices the playmat at €42.90 with VAT included, against the dollar figure on Bandai's page. Payment is electronic only, on site, in the time slot you booked, and you need a Lucca admission ticket for that day. When we read it on 25 October, every window opened by then was marked Sold out; the page says playmats freed up by cancellations and no-shows go back on the same page from about 17:00 on each show day. All three Bandai pages cap the playmat at one per person and say quantities are limited each day.

The gifts differ in a smaller way. Essen and Paris list only CP-001 as the participant gift, and keep the logo sticker in a separate Giveaways block for anyone who follows Bandai's social accounts or joins the TCG+ channel. Lucca lists CP-001 and the sticker together as participant gifts and has no Giveaways block.

Mythos at Paris Games Week: a demo promo and a buy promo

Cicaboom's Events page lists booth E30 and two promo cards, with no booking process published:

• Try the game: Neji Hyuga, "You never meant to be a ninja", a Special rarity Shinobi Shiren card numbered 112/140 V and stamped PROMO EVENT. It is the Neji in the hero image above.
• Buy products: Naruto Uzumaki, Shadow Clone Jutsu, numbered 108/130 V. The page adds that terms and conditions "will be available at the booth".

On the published terms, the Neji is easier to get than it was in the summer. The same Events page lists it as a "Buy a Box Promo" at Gen Con and a "Buy 1 display box" promo at Gamescom. At Paris, the listed route is playing the demo. At SPIEL Essen, the same four days, the page lists the same card for buying 10 boosters from JK Entertainment.

The Naruto needs a closer look, because the name is not new. It shares its number, its cost and Power of 5 and its text with the participation card from June and July's Store Championships, and Cicaboom's card gallery files the two as versions of one card. The art is different, and the Store Championship copy carries a Store Championship stamp where this one has none. It is not new to this show either: the Events page shows this unstamped version as Cicaboom's buy-a-box promo at San Diego Comic-Con, at a Good Games store during Gen Con, and at New York Comic Con, 8 to 11 October.

Mythos at Lucca: the first Shippuden card

At the Padiglione Carducci, Cicaboom's Events page lists four items:

• Play the demo and get: NARUTO, Rasen Shuriken, billed as "THE FIRST NARUTO MYTHOS SHIPPUDEN TCG CARD!"
• An exclusive playmat.
• Two "Exclusive Promo Card Lucca Logo" cards: NARUTO, The Final Valley (SP 147/140 V) and SASUKE, The Final Valley (SP 148/140 V), the numbers printed on Cicaboom's card images.

Only the first comes with a route. The page gives no terms for the playmat or the two Final Valley cards. The card gallery files both Final Valley cards under Set 2, Shinobi Shiren, with the note "Lucca Comics Promo".

Rasen Shuriken costs 4 and has 4 Power. Its bottom edge reads "1st EDITION NARUTO SHIPPUDEN MYTHOS TCG", where the Set 1 and Set 2 cards pictured in this post read NARUTO MYTHOS TCG. Its entire effect is one line:

FIRST STRIKE ↯ Retreat an enemy character in this mission with Power lower than your Loyalty to Leaf Village.

FIRST STRIKE is already in the game: the current rulebook says it triggers only if this is the first character you play in the round, and our how-to-play guide covers it. "Retreat" and "Loyalty" are new. Neither word appears in the rulebook dated 27 August 2026, the official FAQ, the Game Mechanics page or the How to Play page, and none of the 639 Set 1 and Set 2 entries in the official card gallery, as read on 25 October 2026, uses either one. Cicaboom has said Set 3, Akatsuki, is where the game will "enter the world of NARUTO Shippuden for the first time". Until it publishes rules for those two words, no published document tells you what this card does when it resolves.

The two Final Valley cards are built as a pair, since each one's DUEL line names the other. NARUTO's MAIN stops enemy characters moving out of its Mission, and its DUEL with Sasuke Uchiha gives it a Power token for every non-hidden enemy character in play. SASUKE's DUEL with Naruto Uzumaki is POWERUP 3, and its MAIN defeats an enemy upgraded character in its Mission with less printed Power than Sasuke's own Power, after which Sasuke must move, if able. The prize ladder for the rest of Shinobi Shiren's promo cards is in our Shinobi Shiren set guide.

SPIEL Essen: Bandai's stand and Mythos at JK Entertainment

The official SPIEL exhibitor list puts Bandai Card Games at 5J500 in Hall 5, and its entry says the stand presents the One Piece Card Game and "the upcoming Naruto Card Game".

Cicaboom has no entry of its own on the list, but its Events page puts NARUTO Mythos TCG at the show. Read on 25 October, it lists SPIEL Essen 2026, 22 to 25 October, at "JK Entertainment - Hall 5, Booth 5F600", for players and for retailers. It names one promo: the same Neji Hyuga, "You never meant to be a ninja", that Paris gives for trying the game, here for "Buy 10 boosters from JK Entertainment". Unlike the Paris and Lucca listings, it carries no "Play the game" line. The exhibitor list has J.K. Entertainment GmbH at 5F600 in Hall 5, with no description. NARUTO Mythos TCG had its first public showing at SPIEL 2025, which the same Events page lists at Hall 3, booth 3G300.

Three other entries on the list are worth knowing so you do not walk to the wrong stand. Zvezdar, which Cicaboom's Products page still lists as the game's distributor for Europe (a role our Breakflip and Zvezdar piece found contested), has a stand at 5C500; its entry describes Zvezdar as a trading card game distributor serving partners across Europe, without naming a single game. Kayou, whose Naruto line is a collectible rather than a game, is at 5A700, and its entry does not mention Naruto. And French studio This Is A Game, at 4G400 in Hall 4, lists playable demos of a "Naruto Shippuden Battle", without saying what kind of game it is; it is not one of the games covered here. The SPIEL Essen guide covers tickets, halls and the new North entrance that leads straight into Hall 5.

Dubai is Bandai's newest stop

An item on Bandai's English NARUTO CARD GAME news feed dated 9 October adds Tabletop.me in Dubai: 6 to 8 November 2026, at The Concourse Convention Center, Dubai Outlet Mall. Tabletop.me bills itself as the Middle East's first board gaming convention. The feed's two newer items, both dated 13 October, are the New York Comic Con report and a page on 2027's Premier Demo Events in stores, which our Premier Demo Events guide covers, so Tabletop.me is still the only Middle East show on it.

The page is thinner than the European ones: a free Tutorial Session, demo decks you cannot take home, and a line that registration "is planned to take place on-site on the day of the event. Please stay tuned for further details." It lists no participant gift and no playmat. The game already has a route into the region on paper: Bandai's retailer page names two Middle East distributors, Jazeel and Active Gulf, as our distributor breakdown covers.

The dates in one table

What is still not published

• Mythos booking. Cicaboom's Events page lists no sign-up, session times or capacity for its demos at Paris or Lucca.
• Mythos terms. The Paris buy promo's conditions are "available at the booth", and nothing is published for the Lucca playmat or the two Final Valley cards.
• Retreat and Loyalty. No Mythos document defines either term yet.
• Mythos at SPIEL. Cicaboom's listing gives no demo and no terms beyond buying 10 boosters from JK Entertainment.
• Session length and seat counts. Session length at Essen, Paris and Dubai (the Essen and Paris shops give start times only; play-system.eu gives Lucca's as 30 to 45 minutes), seat counts at all four stops, and any gift at all for Dubai.

Bandai details are read from its NARUTO CARD GAME event pages for SPIEL Essen, Paris Games Week, Lucca Comics & Games, Tabletop.me and New York Comic Con, its English news index, 13 October New York Comic Con report and BANDAI TCG+ channel page, the two Weeztix shop pages its Essen and Paris registration buttons link to, and the two play-system.eu pages its Lucca buttons link to. Cicaboom details are read from the NARUTO Mythos TCG Events page, card gallery, rulebook PDF, FAQ, Game Mechanics, How to Play and Products pages and its 27 May Set 3 announcement. Stand numbers at SPIEL come from the official exhibitor list, and Bandai's Paris registration time is confirmed by its entry on the official Paris Games Week exhibitor list. All were checked on 10 October 2026; Cicaboom's Events and Products pages and card gallery, the SPIEL exhibitor list, Bandai's English news index and its SPIEL, Lucca and Tabletop.me pages, and the play-system.eu pages were read again on 25 October 2026.