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Awesome article. Really shows what adaption can really mean from the perspective of producers and audiences alike, and just how complicated the art of adaption really is. I hope more people can begin to understand that too! ☺️

I absolutely love the manner in which Steven Universe deals with gender and sexuality. Nether is glorified or overstated to seem significat or ‘different’ within the show’s world and characters reactions to such topics. It’s normalised and honest and truly beautiful. There’s no characters with big traits or arhtypes that are so heavily dependent on their gender or sexuality. There’s no: they are strong ‘as a woman’ or ‘as a man’ or ‘as a boy, child, etc.’ And all of this is so so beneficial to audiences of all ages because we too adopt these perspectives on the topic of gender and sexuality. Oh, and can I just say the show’s very very clever work around on current cartoon restrictions about these topics is just so smart and awesome 😂👌

I can agree! I really had to watch quite a few eps but really wanted to give it a chance. I had fallen in love with adventure time, especially for its character depth, so I was not so quickly latched on to Steven Universe but I REALLY am now ☺️

It’s so sad that so many outside people (those who do not watch much animation or those who do not care as much for it) have inherent assumptions like this. So those of us who do watch and care about animation, regardless of our age, it’s so beautiful to see shows that do deliberately create content for all audiences. Shows like Adventure Time and Steven Universe who deal with such deep concepts without more mature audiences having to conceptualise the show itself. These topics are deliberately woven in there. Listening to podcasts like The Steven Universe Podcast, interviews of production crews, and the like really reveal to us how much particular crews of particular shows care about what they produce. And as an audience it’s so beautiful to hear that from them.