>>3663238She SEEMS popular, but she isn't. She doesn't really want to be either. She is just the kind of girl who can't say no. It took her communicating with Yukinoshita to learn how to say no. And she still isn't good at it. Luckily, her friends understood that she connects more with Yukinoshita than with them. They even took back seat relatively easily. It's hard to see a friend leave you for someone else, and it's easy to see why they held her with such conviction. But she is only popular, I assume in real world, because she is at least better than Yukinoshita.