5 Seasons, over 100 episodes, 3 years. That's how long Steven Universe has already been around! Sugar created a magical show inspired by her brother, and where everyone who works on it seems to have a chance to share their own personal stories. Everything about the show is so raw and real, and it's because despite being somewhat fantasy-esque in nature, the characters are built by people who can project their very personal experiences into the show. And because of that, so many fans see themselves, and see people like them represented, in the show, and can learn to accept who they are.
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The secret of Steven Universe's universality, it turns out, is that it’s made for an audience of one. "It's not necessarily that I’m making something for everybody. I’m making something for me,” Sugar says. "And I never had a thing for me." That emotional honesty helps explain why fans respond so strongly. "I'm making something for us!" she says, excited. "There's an 'us' now. I didn't have that before, I just had a 'me' that had nothing, and now I have an ‘us,’ and we’re going to make everything for us."
'Steven Universe': How Rebecca Sugar Turned TV's Most Empathetic Cartoon Into an Empire
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