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Konan and the Itachi with crows: the Naruto cards Bandai showed outside its gallery
Two Akatsuki samples and a scene from the original manga come alive in Bandai’s videos. Look closely at Konan and Itachi’s printed traits and how the cards catch the light as they tilt.
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Paper swirls around Konan and crows cut through the red sky behind Itachi. Bandai showed both samples in clips on its official channels. The illustrations catch the eye first, while the trait line helps distinguish one version of a character from another. The manga-style Naruto shows another way the game brings the series to the table.
Konan unleashes a paper storm
The sample prints “konan” in lowercase. Its bottom strip reads Character, with the traits Special and Akatsuki. The movement is in the artwork itself, as sheets of paper cross the frame and catch the changing light. Our flat reference is taken from Bandai’s original clip and corrected for perspective. The SAMPLE mark is intact. Open the card entry.
A third Itachi you can identify at a glance
The Japanese account shows an English-language card with Illusion, Uchiha Clan and Akatsuki on its trait line. The crows and red sky distinguish it from the front-facing gallery portrait. The demo card N-013 adds Fire to its traits, giving collectors another way to tell the samples apart. Open the card entry · Itachi · Artwork 06 · Itachi N-013.
Naruto’s punch leaps from manga panel to card
In the New York Comic Con clip, Naruto’s fist bursts through black-and-white manga panels in full colour. The card pairs the original speech bubbles with a gold border. Tilt it and the light moves across different parts of the scene. Jiraiya’s clip shows the same play of light in a palette of red and gold. Naruto · Artwork 04.
What the samples tell us
Konan and Itachi display 3 damage, 6 power and 6 health, figures also seen on other previews. Bandai has yet to confirm their card numbers, costs, rarities, effects or sets. The simulator includes the samples as references outside its playable decks. The worldwide launch remains scheduled for June 2027.
Card catalogue · Online demo · Bandai’s official gallery · NarutoReca.
