I'd say check for one of those essential episodes lists. There's a lot of bad filler. But the background art is pretty and there's some interesting ideas. But be prepared for the lib politics.
I'm pretty used to lib politics in media and can overlook it if the content is good. So is Steven Universe more like Avatar with it being a story based adventure?
It's a lot like a sailor moon kinda thing with mostly monsters of the week and the occasional story crumb thrown in. There are seasonal arcs, but a lot of the episodes don't directly interact with the main storyline.
The chiptune/synth BGM's really decent. The background art can be very beautiful. Has some very sweet moments between characters that you don't get to see in shows, especially in such high amounts. The ending politics are lame but it's mostly because it's taking the show's main themes of dealing with feelings and personal relationships and applying it to a big political scale due to the show's scope creep. It goes from the early episodes of a kid playing around town with his like adoptive aunts fighting monsters of the week to a Transformers-esque galactic soap opera still with a lot of side stories with the townsfolk.
I'd also add that if you do pick it up, just let it end at the movie, the episodes in the future arc are just uninteresting rehashes of already treaded thematic ground and uninteresting plot developments that are more frustrating than entertaining.
I still haven't seen it. Is it worth watching?
I'd say check for one of those essential episodes lists. There's a lot of bad filler. But the background art is pretty and there's some interesting ideas. But be prepared for the lib politics.
I'm pretty used to lib politics in media and can overlook it if the content is good. So is Steven Universe more like Avatar with it being a story based adventure?
It's a lot like a sailor moon kinda thing with mostly monsters of the week and the occasional story crumb thrown in. There are seasonal arcs, but a lot of the episodes don't directly interact with the main storyline.
The chiptune/synth BGM's really decent. The background art can be very beautiful. Has some very sweet moments between characters that you don't get to see in shows, especially in such high amounts. The ending politics are lame but it's mostly because it's taking the show's main themes of dealing with feelings and personal relationships and applying it to a big political scale due to the show's scope creep. It goes from the early episodes of a kid playing around town with his like adoptive aunts fighting monsters of the week to a Transformers-esque galactic soap opera still with a lot of side stories with the townsfolk.
I'd also add that if you do pick it up, just let it end at the movie, the episodes in the future arc are just uninteresting rehashes of already treaded thematic ground and uninteresting plot developments that are more frustrating than entertaining.