User blog comment:Xesc13primero/How disappointing Love Live Sunshine.../@comment-25091343-20160806223102/@comment-25091343-20160806231335

To be honest, I don't really like the idea of Honoka and Eli's sisters being the protagonists. If they were the protagonists, I think that they'd lean on Muse even more, because they have direct contact with the members. With Aquors, they know the basic knowledge of Muse, but don't know the full story, unlike Arisa and Yukiho who do.

Again, to me, it only seems that way because the current members have the mindset of "oh, this happened to Muse but they made it better, so it'll happen to us." Yes,  Aqours is currently facing the same problems as Muse, but how it plays out is different. Muse's growth was constant, growing more popular with each performance and member. Aquor's growth isn't constant, so far only popular within their small town. Remember that Muse was located in Tokyo, the largely populated place Arise was also in, and that school idols(or Love Live) was a new concept. With Aqours, they live in a small town with no huge rival, and Love Live is a very popular thing now. As I said, you have to remember that the Love Live MCs are based on archetypes, so of course you'd see the similarities. A Love Live season is a 13 episode run, so the characters stay relatively close to their archetypes instead of deviating from that and turn into fully fleshed characters.