>>84096430Truth be told popularity (not exclusively but overwhelmingly) scales with how much the girl acts like prey.
More rarely, how much she acts like a predator.
Tenma doesn't give off the vibe of a potential victim or victomizer so people are largely indifferent to hostile.
Conversely, girls that start out with a prey persona and end up casting it off are usually hounded by antis nonstop till the end of time.