>>24618
I was wondering what happened to this show.
>>24720
>Is it still sex
Yes.
How? Japan did the same thing back in the Aught's, and it was shit when they did it, too. The series is called
Genesis of Aquarion. To put it simply, the show is shit, but, to give the short of it, it is that it's about an academy of mecha pilots who are trying to save the Earth from angels. And, how they do this is by combining three ancient ships to create one giant mecha.
And, I shit you not, the combining of the ships is an euphemism for sex. How? Well, let's see, pilots can only have the ships combine if they're sexually compatible, there was a couple episodes explicitly devoted towards the characters being literally sexually frustrated or nymphomaniacs, there was one episode of the characters crossdressing just because the school principle is a kinky bastard, and one of angels wants to turn the series' protagonist into his boytoy because he's still jealous over how (In the protagonist's previous life) he prefers munching on vaginas over sucking cock.
If you want a full review, go here: https://archive.ph/dQKXk#selection-1799.0-1814.0 And, after you watch other combining mecha series like
Gundam,
Getter Robo, and
Gurren Lagann; you get a pretty clear picture that
Aquarion is using the robot combinations to talk about sex.
So, to bring this back to
Steven Universe, yes, given the context in the show, fusion is a euphemism for sex.
That's also beside the fact that the show's own creator confirmed it already.