Hasemi said most of the confusion came over how she would refer to Rito; although "Oniichan" kept popping into the author's head, they ultimately decided on her addressing her older brother by his first name.

This was because, no matter what he did, advancing the story from her perspective would leave Lala Satalin Deviluke and Haruna Sairenji behind and "narrow" the scope more than usual with not much character interaction.

"[2] In the manga's third year of serialization, the creators thought about having the main cast move up a grade, but one of the reasons they decided against it was because Mikan would have had to grow up.

Yabuki explained it was about "her character attributes"; by having her appearance change and her clothes switch to a school uniform, it would seem like she was growing up and they felt that To Love Ru had not gotten to that stage of the story yet.

[2] In the final volume of To Love Ru Darkness, released in early April 2017, Yabuki jokingly commented that he was plotting to draw a spin-off starring Mikan as a magical girl.

In contrast to Rito, Mikan is very mature, but does not hesitate to tease him; calling him a "playboy" for attracting so many girls, including Lala Satalin Deviluke, Haruna Sairenji, Golden Darkness, Yui Kotegawa, and many others.

[15] Reviewing the third season of the anime, which is based on To Love Ru Darkness, Martin commented how Mikan has been demoted to a substantially "meatier role" in the series.

[18] In June 2014, Crunchyroll announced the results of a popularity poll conducted by Japanese website Charapedia to determine which anime characters fans would like to have as a little sister; Mikan was ranked 9th with 114 votes.

[19] In September 2014, Crunchyroll disclosed the results of another popularity poll made by Charapedia about the female characters whose homemade food fans would most like to eat, and Mikan ranked 6th with 237 votes.

[22] The December 2016 issue of Jump Square revealed the top 10 female characters from To Love Ru Darkness whose nipples were exposed the most in the manga, and Mikan was ranked 7th with a total of 94 times.

In April 2013, the online store for the Animate retailer started pre-ordering a box of eight different To Love Ru-themed cell phone straps with the image of a female character from the manga–including Mikan.

[24] In October 2017, Japanese company FOTS JAPAN began pre-orders for the sale of their first item, a pre-painted 1/8 scale PMMA figure of Mikan wearing a one-piece swimsuit.