With a guest list that includes Pitch Perfect star Adam Devine (as Pizza Steve), The Runaways rocker Joan Jett (as Sunshine Justice), Magnolia crooner Aimee Mann (as Opal) and Super Bass songstress Nicki Minaj (Sugilite) Steven Universe is a colourful big-hearted delight for older kids and adults alike. Broadway legend Patti LuPone also lends her considerable vocal talents to the show as Yellow Diamond. Many of the characters taking song, influenced by Michael Jackson and Estelle, who also voices Garnet, many of the songs were written by Sugar with the incredibly catchy music composed by Aivi Tran and Steven Velema. It’s not all oddball quirkiness and eye-popping visuals, Steven Universe has also received accolades galore for its earworm filled soundtrack. Cue giant marauding fast food and mini cats for fingers. Steven, who is half-Gem, has adventures with his friends and helps the Gems protect the world from their own kind. He attempts to open them up to new experiences by assigning them different occupations, but this results in panic and destruction as the Gems work at jobs they are unsuited for. Steven lives in the fictional town of Beach City with the Crystal Gems-a trio of magical, humanoid aliens named Pearl (Deedee Magno), Garnet (Estelle), and Amethyst (Michaela Dietz). While happy with the effort, Steven is unhappy that most have chosen jobs that resemble what they did on Homeworld.

Nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program and taking home awards galore, Steven Universe is the coming-of-age story of a young boy called Steven Universe (voiced by Zach Callison and based on the show creator’s own little brother). It’s no surprise that she was also a writer on Adventure Time, the askew universe that Sugar has created, the first created by a woman on the Cartoon Network in the States, blending her great love of the superhero genre and magical-girl anime while bringing important messages of acceptance into kid’s entertainment. Cutting her animated teeth as a storyboard artist on the bacon pancake-tastic Adventure Time and Adam Sandler’s spooky and kooky Hotel Transylvania, it’s obvious that Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar has absorbed much of her previous projects irreverent and crazy style.

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