Would Steven Universe improve significantly if Gems were guys and not coomerbaits for gooners with specific fetishes?

Doubt it.

male Garnet is too twinky, he'd be the bara chad of the group

>>149509238 (OP)
>not coomerbaits for gooners with specific fetishes
OP, your pic has two femboys, a twink, a zesty dudebro, and a butch lesbian. At least you didn't include the emotionally wounded and depressed sadboi and arrogant yet vulnerable nerd.

Worse desu if they look like twinks
Maybe slightly better if they look like chads but the endless amount of girls was a good thing of the show

>>149509238 (OP)
As a gooner with very specific fetishes I say no

>>149509238 (OP)
I mean, based on these designs, I think it'd be practically the same thing. Only difference would be it'd attract more people that are into yaoi, instead of yuri.

>>149509238 (OP)
You’re looking for the lesser known series “transformers”

>>149509238 (OP)
No. It would just turn into fujo-slop and wouldn't have sold.

It WOULD be improved significantly if the Gems had eyelashes and were slightly more feminine in appearance.

>>149509646
Are people horny for Transformers?
idk why i'm asking this of course they are

>>149509238 (OP)
Only Pearl

The concept of the gems and rock people can be retrofitted into a badass scifi universe if you put your mind into it. Thing is, it stops being Steven Universe and becomes something else entirely. SU revolves around Steven crying and lesbians talking about their feelings. Take that out and the series... Changes. For the better, but you might as well give it a different name.

As pointed out in another thread, Steven himself can be salvaged by having him be a normal boy that grows into a true badass like Enzo from Reb00t but... That's not Steven anymore. His whole character is being an effeminate fat kid. Hell, the whole concept of a rock species harvesting planets can serve as a kickass backstory with vengeful species and homeworld wrestling with the ghosts of it's sadistic past but again... That's not Steven Universe.

Christ. If I did it:
>The Chrystal Gems are now the MetalMen.
>Pearl is Bronze. A hardened warrior with disdain towards the lesser races, but his respect for his mentor makes him beholden to Steven.
>Amathyst is Copper. A brute who has more in common with the savages found in feral and feudal worlds. Defends Steven as he's honor bound towards his chief even after death.
>Garnet is Iron. A soldier with a real killer instinct but regrets the war and what they did.
>Steven has a healthy circle of friends and lives a happy life unlike what we... Got in the series.
>Rose is Sterling Silver, and he made Steven as an attempt to atone for his role in destroying worlds for his Empire.
>Girl Greg has more in common with Hilda's Mum with a relatively normal job.
>Beach City is a metropolis and the side cast is massive: Steven has an entire life outside of the Rock Men and has to juggle his duties towards his fellow aliens and his human side. Sterling wanted Steven to be happy and would prefer the latter than the former.
>Many alien species are encountered, as are extradimensional entities and robots.

>>149511395
cont.
>In a weird sense, Steven Universe resembles Reb00t or Batman Beyond more than Ben 10... Or maybe even Star Trek animated or... Shit, Star Wars the Clone Wars.
>Much of the drama revolves around the Metal Men fighting off extraterrestrial and earthborn threats.
>These range from everything from a robot obsessed doctor, to technobarbarians challenging Amathyst to a duel, to even corrupt politicians and opportunistic generals trying to launch a coup.
>Connie is just one character of many, with Steven wrestling with his human attraction to girls as he enters puberty.
>Connie isn't attracted to Steven but he is and... He has to accept it.
>He has to deal with many personality types as he grows up until he finds the one.
>Kevin is a bully who starts off as a great tormenter to Steven but steadily gets beaten down into comic relief at the very end of the series.
>Lars is a buttboy to Kevin.
>Peedee is the cowardly fourth wheel to an eerily familiar band of scammers who use him as a fall guy.
>Steven idolizes a teenage band of superheroes who barely acknowledge his existence at first, resembling popular cartoon characters from the 2000s.
The theme is growing up. Unlike the main series, Steven has to grow up and become the responsible happy adult his father always wanted him to be. Through it, he has to contend with loss, rejection, failure, acceptance, and finally: success.

>>149509238 (OP)
Not exactly. It would have just found an audience who loves gay twinks and twunks instead. Which honestly, I would have preferred.