Beautiful Enough

Adventure Time’s visual design works on you in a way most cartoons don’t. Lumpy Space Princess, Marceline, BMO—they’re all drawn with intention. The show knows what it’s doing with how characters look and how it frames them.

There’s a particular kind of desire that lands between ’I want to look at this’ and ’I want to live inside this.’ It’s the desire for the thing to exist near your skin. If those characters existed as wearable fabric, you’d burn everything else you owned to make room for them.

That’s the only standard that matters when you’re deciding what to commit to visually. The show clears it. Adventure Time’s never been sexier than when it’s something tangible.