"Steven the Sword Fighter" | |
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Steven Universe episode | |
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Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 16 |
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Featured music | "Dance of Swords" and "Holo Pearl" by Aivi Tran and Steven Velema |
Production code | 1020-013[1] |
Original air date | April 9, 2014[2] |
Running time | 11 minutes |
"Steven the Sword Fighter" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American animated television series Steven Universe. It is written by Joe Johnston and Jeff Liu.
In the United States, the episode originally aired on Cartoon Network on April 9, 2014, the first new episode to air on the series' new Wednesday time slot. The episode was viewed by 1.098 million viewers, becoming the thirty-sixth most watched episode aired by the network for the week of April 7 to April 13, 2014.
The episode shows Pearl attempting to teach Steven the art of sword-fighting using Holo-Pearl, a holographic version of herself. However, during the lessons, Pearl gets injured and retreats into her gem to heal and make a new body to project.