User blog comment:Xesc13primero/How disappointing Love Live Sunshine.../@comment-25091343-20160806223102

You kinda have to remember that all Love Live characters, original and sunshine, are characters based upon archetypes. The always energetic amazing leader, the cute and shy one, the cool one, the distant one with a past, the mother type, are all archetypes, so of course you would see the similarities. The similarities are just even more noticeable because of how Aqours(right now) is basing everything on Muse's experiences. That fact, even though right now is fairly annoying, would be interesting in the long run. Imagine them doing a performance outside of their town and having no huge crowd, being called copycats by Dia(99% this is going to happen), etc. I don't think that the producers are making Muse such a huge deal and nspiration for Aqours just for fanservice, but to put them down a few pegs in the future to be able to recognize that they need their own story and can't replay Muse's story. An interesting thing about Muse in the manga is that they were called out for being copycats of Arise, so they could be using that plotpoint for Aquors.