Steven Universe loves tipping its hat to anime. It regularly references various anime series including Neon Genesis Evangelion, Captain Harlock, and Cowboy Bebop. It’s even involved animation ...

The climax of “Steven Universe: The Movie” comes not when the hero battles the vengeful, superpowered alien atop the planet-destroying weapon. It arrives a beat later when the titular Steven ...

It’s been 10 years since Steven Universe unlocked his Gem ability to summon a shield as he savored the last of his beloved, now-discontinued frozen treat Cookie Cat. What Rebecca Sugar initially ...

When the first season of Steven Universe aired on Cartoon Network, the charming, inclusive story of a half-human, half-alien boy whose mysterious, beautiful mother Rose Quartz saved the planet ...

But that’s exactly what Steven Universe has done. The Cartoon Network show, from former Adventure Time storyboard artist and writer Rebecca Sugar, appears to focus simply on a young boy (the ...

Rebecca Sugar didn’t set out to be an entertainment trailblazer. Growing up as a bisexual adolescent, sitting in her suburban Washington home and watching TV, she simply absorbed who was ...

Spend any amount of time in the cartoon world that is Steven Universe and you’ll find there’s absolutely nothing ordinary about the Cartoon Network series. Sure, the animated television show ...

The Steven Universe theme song sounds like what winning a video game feels like. Its exuberant beats sound like old 8-bit games, evoking triumph, determination, and silliness while celebrating ...

The title character of Steven Universe is an adolescent boy who, over the course of the Cartoon Network series’ first five seasons, developed the ability to fly, to conjure an impenetrable pink ...