![]() ![]() ”I always wanted this world and these characters to feel sublime, as if it’s always going on before and after the episodes, and continues to exist outside the frame of what you see,” she says. But Sugar says the sense that there’s more story left to come was part of the plan all along. Given how the series has progressed - often with little word between seasons, and abrupt reveals when a new “Steven bomb” was about to drop a bunch of new episodes on the fandom - it’s no wonder fans are wondering if there’s secretly more Steven Universe on the horizon. ![]() “There is no official continuation in development at this time.” “As of now, I haven’t approved any official continuation, and aside from the upcoming End of an Era artbook, I am not involved in, and have not approved, any upcoming comics or books or video games,” she tells Polygon via email. Image: Cartoon Networkīut Sugar says she has no plans to continue the series from here. The series wraps with Steven headed off on a road trip, but it feels like there’s still a lot of story to tell, about how he continues to process his grief, about what happens to his many alien friends as they settle into their new life on Earth, and how the entire planet deals with its peaceful merging with a new species. ![]() And then the 20-episode finale miniseries, Steven Universe Future, addressed some of the show’s minor loose ends, while acknowledging the lasting effects of the series’ action on Steven, who is, after all, still just a teenager. They capped that with a feature film, Steven Universe: The Movie. Sugar and her crew also built up a huge science-fiction mythos stretching back millennia. Over the course of 160 episodes, Steven Universe taught its audience lessons about tolerance and acceptance, about the importance of talking through conflicts and acknowledging emotions. At its smallest, though, the series was about mindfulness and meditation, about a kid finding his own identity and separating himself from his parents, and about whether some of his friends managed to get their band off the ground.īut it was always about compassion and connection. At its most expansive, Steven Universe was a series about the next evolution of an alien race trying to broker peace between a vast, expansionist alien empire and the weird little blue-green planet that seduced a few of that empire’s rebel soldiers. Later episodes often foregrounded the struggles between that alien race and Earth, but just as often, they continued to focus on smaller things - mostly Steven’s relationships with the other people in his small beachside town. The series opener is so hyper-focused on the frozen treat that it barely even registers that Steven is the first-ever hybrid between a human and a race of all-female crystal-based aliens. Creator Rebecca Sugar and her team started off with a deceptively simple story: in the first episode, kid protagonist Steven Universe is upset because the company behind his favorite ice-cream sandwich brand is pulling it off the market. When Cartoon Network’s animated series Steven Universe launched in 2013, it didn’t look like something that was going to change the way American animation handled storytelling. ![]()
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