TV Club: Steven Universe and Connie get a “Mindful Education” from Garnet

Source: www.avclub.com - Thursday, August 25, 2016
One of Steven Universe ’s biggest strengths is its resistance to centralization. Everything revolves around Steven, to an extent, but the show also takes great pains to keep a number of plots and subplots running, ranging from the very big (the Gems fending off Home World) to the slightly smaller in scope but still mythologically important (Steven’s efforts to reverse corruption) to the individual problems of Gems (Amethyst’s insecurity) and humans (Lars and Sadie’s relationship). Any of these can pop up at any time and take over whatever else is happening, but increasingly, the show has tried to pack several of these threads into a single episode. In these cases, it’s probably best to swing for the fences—which is exactly what storyboard team Colin Howard, Jeff Liu, and guest animator Takafumi Hori (in the first collaboration between Steven Universe and Studio Trigger) do in “Mindful ...

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