User blog comment:Kira4real/Call for Admins/@comment-11445272-20150105025735

Hello, I just want to make a contribution to the characters drop down menu regarding Mikami, Misa, Near, and Mello as secondary characters. I just think that it's better if Light, L, and Ryuk are just the main characters as Anime Planet put them which makes sense since they are far more important in terms of screentime and roles than Misa, Near, Mello, and Mikami. There are plenty of reasons why Misa, Near, Mello. and Mikami should not be listed as main characters:

-Misa loses focus twice and her role is badly compared to the likes of others such as Light, L, Near, Mello, and Mikami

-Near and Mello were the main focus of the first half of the second half until when Mikami took over, Mello was out until before the Yellow Box meeting and Near was the only focus then. Their role in the first half of the second half were pretty equal from the beginning of the timeskip towards the 13 day rule exposure

-Mikami is as important as Misa, Near, and Mello if not Light, L, and Ryuk. Mikami had more character focus regarding backstory than any other characters which puts him on the spot than that of Higuchi, Matt, Takada, and Matsuda. It is indeed that Mikami had more of a role to preserve Death Note's quality since L's death and he fulfilled it all the way to the end despite lasting after the 13 day rule exposure.

From what I was saying above, Misa, Near, Mello, and Mikami had pretty much about the same screentime and role they had.