New Death Note Characters Coming: Here's What You Need to Know
Death Note: Killer Within adds new roles in Summer 2025 with deeper strategy and hidden identities.

Bandai Namco was now declaring that Death Note: Killer Within will include new characters in the upcoming update. It will be out in Summer 2025. They also dropped a trailer with the announcement. Appears that the update is going to add depth to the game, maybe with strange twists and lots of surprise moments for the players.
The game was already released on 5 November 2024, and it is available to play on PS5, PS4, and PC via Steam. It is based on the idea of the Death Note anime and manga, but it continues to be liked by many fans. People play now because it has an intelligent kind of gameplay.
Kira Group and L People, Nobody Show Real Face
Ten are arriving to play in the game room. The game puts them into two groups. One of them belongs to Kira, and they are playing notebook killing. The other is helping L and trying to find out who Kira is. All of them had a secret character. They look like small figurines, just like in anime.
Kira's team does employ a notebook for sketching out targets. But L's team must do some hard thinking, monitor moves, and try to make correct guesses. Both teams are accomplishing the opposite thing, so a good guess and being politely dishonest are part of the show.
The trailer deploys some new characters. That can change the course the whole thing takes. It can be different powers or other things. The game may become tougher now.
Death Note Changes Shape, But Never Goes Away
Death Note originally was a manga. Tsugumi Ohba wrote, and Takeshi Obata illustrated. It was serialized within Weekly Shonen Jump from 2003 to 2006. Then there was anime. Studio MADHOUSE produces it. That series had 37 episodes. Light and L remain popular today because people like the mind war.
Then a movie with actual actors came along, and even a television drama. Some more manga also got produced, including Short Stories, which came out in 2021. And then they revealed in 2022 that a new live-action project is going to be coming out.
Light knows at the start of the manga what the Death Note can do. He is based on secret police reports because his dad is deep in the police. That puts him ahead early. But this strange dude is stalking him, and now Light has to kill without knowing the name. That complicates things.
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And with Killer Within, Bandai Namco again takes that universe, but does it for playing with other people online. These characters are coming in summer, they're gonna change the gameplay and make games tougher for sure.
Written By Manika Kayal, Intern, India Today Gaming.