Bye Bye Conception! And At Last It’s Done!

Conception Episode 12 Review

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There’s very little left to say about this anime that I haven’t already said, but if I was hoping for an ending that would somehow make it seem worth while then I would have been left fairly disappointed. Though, let’s throw in a positive, they did at least conclude the whole labyrinth thing with the impurities. The fact that the conclusion makes no sense, logical or otherwise, is more or less par for the course and I guess if you watched 12 episodes of this you can hardly be surprised.

I think what really sets this one apart from other bad anime that end badly, is that this one doesn’t even commit to its terrible ending. After giving us an illogical and fairly pointless final fight, all of the characters who we just waved good-bye to show up again and they all jump through the portal to earth. Because that makes sense. Then cut to the credits where we see all the Star Maidens living happily working in their jobs on earth without any issue whatsoever. Sure.

Of course that is only the end point of stupidity. Firstly we have Itsuki deciding he isn’t going to sacrifice himself. Then the King asking the Star Maidens to perform the ritual to sacrifice him. Then the maidens deciding not to. Then some random fight sequence where various declarations of wanting to help each other somehow power things up so the star children fuse into robots, and then Itsuki joins them, Alfie is killed, Alfie’s oddball star-child joins them as a weapon and that’s the end only the star children are apparently now being used to seal the impurity.

Like what? Which part of any of that made sense and how was it better for 13 children to get left behind to seal the impurity rather than one Itsuki. My eyes very nearly rolled clean out of my head trying to watch this one. Okay, I’m going to have to review the whole series of this and I’m going to have to figure out how to be nice (or at least not rant) but in the meantime, I’d suggest avoiding this one.

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CONCEPTION II: CHILDREN OF THE SEVEN STARS

• Episode 1 – We Can’t Accuse Them Of Being Subtle Here
• Episode 2 – Star Children and Labyrinths
• Episode 3 – If We Got Rid of the Tanuki This Would Be Better
• Episode 4 – A Touching Story Told Between Lewd Jokes
• Episode 5 + 6 – Controversial Fortunes, Candid Fan Photos and Helping Bakers
• Episode 7 – Exploring Inuendo and Bread at the Festival
• Episode 8 – A Story of Fan Service, Parodies, and Star Children
• Episode 9 – It’s The Joke That Just Keeps On Missing
• Episode 10 – 100 Ways to Remove and Obnoxious Character
• Episode 11 – The Day Itsuki Had Sex With Mana?
• Episode 12 – Bye Bye Conception! And At Last It’s Done