Talk:Rem/@comment-110.235.229.137-20200809164742/@comment-29744694-20200825235118

No they did this kind of thing in other animes as well. Attack on Titan they crystalized a girl until nearly the end of the series as an example. building a relationship with Rem was already discarded before she went to support Subaru with the whale. They don't really need to care about how popular Rem is but putting a big tragedy on a major character everyone loves or is the MC's pillar of strength brings a big dramatic effect in the plot and how the various characters around deal with it. The motivation for Subaru and much more. He ended his arc with Rem and is building up with other characters that didn't have any air time because they were new or weren't focused on from the rest of the cast while leaving this very important character for the future at some point.