If you are an anti-normie schizo esoteric person, you shouldn't care if something is popular or not, and instead focus on whether it is actually good or not. Don't let mass media convince you that you should immediately drop something you like just because it became popular or else we will just let normies push us out of everything good.
If you think about it, yeah, Eduardo literally went through a "horrific accident" arc. Is he an actual shounen manga character?