The book doesn't explain it in detail, but according to some information from the show, "the Crystal System" seems to be the designation for Earth and its surrounding area of space, so named by the Gem homeworld. I like that it's specific about "Crystal Gems" being different from just "Gems," because I know some fans don't have the difference figured out. The book begins with a section on the Crystal Gems. It's just cute to imagine kids reading this book and imagining they might actually talk to a Gem one day. Rebecca Sugar, the creator of the TV show, introduces Steven and says he wrote the guide, and suggests he knows how to talk to Gems and how to talk to humans because he's half of both, so he's the natural guide to teach YOU how to talk to Gems. (The ruby gem is the square one and it's supposed to be on her left hand the sapphire gem is the triangular one and it's supposed to be on her right hand. Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst have all come back with a new design at some point in the show, and even though they're supposed to be narrating from "now," sometimes their pre-regeneration outfit is what they're pictured in, or in rare cases it's some weird mixture, or there are little errors like Garnet having the gems on her hands switched. In the show, when their bodies get damaged and they have to generate new ones, sometimes they regenerate with new outfits. While some of the art is original and some is delivered through screencaps from the show presented as snapshots of specific moments, occasionally when the characters pop up and comment on the content, the Gems' outfits are inconsistent. That way some of the talk bubbles belonging to offstage characters are easily attributed. Their talk bubbles are also color-coded, with Pearl's being blue-green, Garnet's being red, Amethyst's being purple, and Steven's being pink. Pearl's font is a thin, delicate font Garnet's is blocky and bold Amethyst's is stylish and casual and a little messy Steven's is childlike and straightforward. The characters each have different fonts to distinguish them, but they're all quite readable, which is very smart. Some of them are new for the book, like a drawing of Rose Quartz in a car with the other three Gems in their outfits from when Greg first met them, being adorable in the car. The little illustrations of the characters popping up and decorating pages is great. The backgrounds are very similar to what you see in the show: a lot of pastels and sparkly stripes with shines on them, and little decorations all over the place, like stars, Cookie Cats, and Crying Breakfast Friends stickers. That's one of the best things about both the show and this book: Steven is a realistic child character whose perspectives are colored by his youth, and it's just a wonderful thing to observe. Steven only passes the reins to another character once-letting Garnet explain Fusions since she's basically the professor and poster child of all things Fusion-and other than that, it's all presented in a great approximation of the child character's voice. Of course, being that (like the show) it's from Steven's point of view, it's far from an omniscient tell-all. Like its title promises, it's a guidebook it's not a storybook and doesn't contain any adventures, it's just an outline of the characters, primarily told in the voice of the protagonist, Steven Universe himself.Īnyone who likes the television show will probably like this book it's primarily information we already know from watching the show, but it's nice to have it all in one place, and there ARE bits of it that are essentially new information or clarifications of things we haven't really heard spelled out before. This is a fantastic little tie-in to the popular television show on Cartoon Network, Steven Universe.
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