Super Divers is an arcade game, and that fact shapes everything about how the community, the competition and even the product design work. There is no app to download — the game exists as cabinets, cards and a plastic IC card that carries your progress.
Your data lives on the Diver Passport, an amusement IC card. It stores your deck, your avatar, your rank, your win streak, your team membership and your training data, and it carries all of that between machines and between visits.
New players get a Trial Diver Passport — free, issued by the machine itself, and usable up to 30 times. It can be handed over or transferred to a full Diver Passport once you commit, so nobody has to spend money to find out whether they like the game. The one restriction worth remembering is that a Trial Passport cannot join a team.
The Avatar Card is the one slot in your eight that is not a Battle Card, and it is where the game's longer progression lives. Your avatar can be trained (育成), customised in appearance, and developed through a skill tree. There is also a master-pupil gauge (師弟ゲージ) — a mentor system that rewards playing with or under a more experienced player. Training and cosmetics are permanent and live on the Passport, which is why the avatar is the reason your Passport is worth keeping even as your cards rotate through sets.
The game runs on dedicated cabinets at arcades across Japan, with the highest concentration at Super Divers Arena locations — the dedicated flagship venues. The official material notes that these sites have many machines, and that some run a "golden machine" (黄金のマシン) configuration. If you are travelling in Japan specifically to play, going to an Arena rather than a general arcade is the difference between waiting for a free cabinet and playing immediately — machine availability at a small arcade is a real bottleneck, and it is the main practical complaint regular players raise.
The Super Diver Battle tournament series runs at partner shops and arcades around the country, letting players compete in local store events. This is the ladder's most accessible competitive layer: shop tournaments are where most players get their first taste of ranked pressure, and where the local scene is usually most active. The 13th set introduced the Super Diver Battle as a set-timed tournament alongside the new Buchigire system.
The 26th Super Diver Championship was decided on November 5, 2026 — a date worth noting because it lands at the start of the anniversary period, when the game runs its biggest events. The venue events (会場イベント) programme supports the same competitive ecosystem at a local level, and the Championship is the top of it: the event that the ranked ladder and the published top 100 God-rank list ultimately feed.
The anniversary period also brings the game's biggest platform outside arcades. It was announced on November 5, 2026 that Jump Festa 2027 will host an exhibition of the game — Jump Festa is the major annual manga and anime industry event in Japan, and a Super Divers exhibition there is a strong signal that the franchise intends the game to keep growing beyond its arcade base.
The 2nd Anniversary Set is the premium physical product from Premium Bandai. Its first order window has closed, and a second order window ran from November 6 to 24, 2026, for shipping in June 2027. The set contains:
The deck case and the card loaders are the collector's hook: the loaders are a physical display accessory that protects and shows off a card, which is the kind of detail that turns a game into a display piece on a shelf. It is also, functionally, a seven-card deck and an avatar card — the exact shape of a legal deck, so the anniversary set is playable rather than purely ornamental.
Alongside the numbered sets and the anniversary product, the physical ecosystem runs on advance packs — including the Battle of Saiyans (August 1, 2026) and a 40th Anniversary Edition (February 21, 2026) — and a standalone Story Booster 01 covering the Fusion World, released August 8, 2026. The Story Booster being its own product rather than a numbered set is unusual for a card game and suggests the developers intend story-focused side lines to develop alongside the core sets.