User blog comment:Lucy554/Topics Revisited: Aikatsu Stars! Will there be a protagonist switch?/@comment-25034020-20171028043447/@comment-31466279-20171028071447

Saya-chan doesn't look like Akari much though. Not too much and she wasn't even like Akari when Akari was first introduced. Akari wasn't shy, but was just terrible at performing and needed to improve.

Akari was also a copycat, but Saya isn't. Saya hadn't even said that she copied Yume's hairstyle, it was probably her own way of styling her own hairstyle. She can be a student of Four Star Academy in the near future, but as of now she's the same age as Aikatsu Season 1 Episode 50 Akari (when Akari made a cameo that episode we could see her around the same age as current Saya). Ichigo at that time was a second year student, just like Yume is now. However, if we presume that if Saya-chan was to be a main character, then that would mean that Yume would have 3-4 seasons for herself because Saya is a child right now and can't apply to Four Star, so she would need more time to grow as Season 2 Akari where Ichigo was a high school student. And Ichigo became one in two seasons, while Yume had a whole season dedicated to her first year and she only became a second year in Season 2.

And Saya really hasn't appeared anymore after that, so frankly it's impossible for someone like her to become the main character.