CURIE

The first (and lesser) problem is that Near basically does nothing.  That'd be fine, if he was just there for two or three pages where he decides he has no way of catching the new main character and leaves.  But no, he and his officer buddies take up exactly 20 pages (I counted) which is almost a quarter of the whole issue.  They could have either cut out most of that and focused on the main character more, or invested more into Near's involvement and had it lead up to something more than "I give up lol".

Even then I really liked the manga overall until the end.  The ending is the REAL problem.  It kinda spits in the face of the whole series: the Death Gods literally make up a new rule at the very last second and don't tell the main character about it, so he dies even though he did everything right.  What's worse is that there's some bad design in the manga itself: it seems to show that the rule was changed WHILE the guy still had the Death Note and was still never told about it, which actually breaks an existing rule of the Death Gods being up front about their own rules.  It's only after going back and re-reading the page carefully that you realized they covered their bases in saying Ryuk didn't change the rule until after the kid gave it up.  Even still, it's dumb and only exists to reach the pre-decided endpoint of "the main character always dies".  At least almost everyone but him has a happy ending I guess?