Conception
CONCEPTION（コンセプション）
On his high school graduation day, Itsuki's cousin, Mahiru, tells him that she's pregnant. Just then, a gate of light emerges and transports the two into the world of Granvania. In this land, "Impurities" have been causing a disturbance to the Stars, ultimately plunging Granvania into chaos and disorder. And Itsuki, now revealed to be one who is fated to meet with the "Star Maidens," is seen as Granvania's last hope and was thus given the task to produce "Star Children" and combat the "impurities." And unless the task is complete, Itsuki may never be able to return home. (Source: Wikipedia, edited)
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On his high school graduation day, Itsuki's cousin, Mahiru, tells him that she's pregnant. Just then, a gate of light emerges and transports the two into the world of Granvania. In this land, "Impurities" have been causing a disturbance to the Stars, ultimately plunging Granvania into chaos and disorder. And Itsuki, now revealed to be one who is fated to meet with the "Star Maidens," is seen as Granvania's last hope and was thus given the task to produce "Star Children" and combat the "impurities." And unless the task is complete, Itsuki may never be able to return home. (Source: Wikipedia, edited)
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lkevsan
April 17, 2019
WARNING: This is a big rant and contains spoilers of the show. Hope you can enjoy the review. Growing in the mid-2000s, I believe some of you still watched anime thanks to that magic box called Television. One of the channels that I remember the most was a channel called Animax. Animax brought a lot of shows from Gonzo, things like Black Cat, Saikano, The First Hellsing, Gantz, Burst Angel, you named it, Gonzo had their name slapped on the credit sequences. After a long time, I haven’t heard about those guys lately so I decided to check out if they even were still active andthey still are, and it seems that they put out one of the worst shows from last year, although knowing the fact that I watched Ladyspo In its entirety, I doubt that there would be something worst that came out in 2018 but it surely does make a competition. The first thing I must say from this animation is that Conception has to be one of the dumbest premises I have ever heard. The premise is that these 2 teenagers who are cousins and whose names I forgot because of how godawful this show is, are transported to this next dimension. Yeah, we start with this trend of going to another dimension like if it is something revolutionary in these days when things like Digimon already did it 2 decades ago and other shows even before Digimon did it too. So, our main protagonist arrives, and some demon spirit comes out of his cousin and a sword comes from him and he defeats the demon without issues. After the fight it is revealed that the seals that appeared on them showed up because the cliché of you are the chosen ones to save our world. But he can not do it alone, and the reason is because, again the power up in this show is so idiotic. He must have sexual relationships with these 12 girls, and one of them being his cousin, these other girls also have these seals so he could breed kids called stellar children and they will protect the city because some labyrinths are causing troubles in this world. First thing I must say: THIS PREMISE IS SO STUPID!!! And after the unbearable first episode the show makes a big U-turn in the next episodes because the producers of this forgot what the main focus of the story was or maybe I am missing something for not playing the game, but it turns out that expecting the main protagonist fighting with a sword and the Star Children it was just a clickbait and the show becomes this stupid harem about how our protagonist seduces all those 12 girls, oops I mean 13 because there is one that changes personalities if she gets hit on the head. I have to say this WHY WASN’T THIS A HENTAI? If this was a hentai, I wouldn’t have wasted my time in watching this because it tries to be a hentai so hard. They put so much effort into “developing” these relationships for you to see the protagonist and the girls getting into it. Really this is the type of crap Studio Seven should be producing and not Gonzo who has done Welcome to the NHK for god’s sake. And you have it all here, you have trios, you have bondage, you have lolicon with food fetish, you have furry girls, you named it, heck and with Japan always you must add incest with this sort of crap. Another thing I must add to this show is that self-awareness doesn’t make a show instantly funny. This talking tanuki-bear thing has to remind us every time that if we don’t understand anything, we must enter to their website to get all the glimpse of the parts we don’t understand. That is just a big fail in my book for even trying to engage with the viewer. After the protagonist finishes with his quest with the 12 girls there is revelation that there is another one that he must bang and that girl is the one that is taking care of all the children he had, and that idiot tanuki pulls out a horrible Deadpool wanna be like: “Didn’t you watch the opening sequence, it was obvious!!!” The way they try to do comedy is simply awful and cringy to even make you have a chuckle with this arse of dialogue. This show is stupid that they even advertise themselves with the cover of the PS4 game appearing on the same show. So you develop an anime to advertise a game but within the animated advertisement you decide to add the game itself? Honestly why these video game companies can't make a very good animated advertisement of the games they want to sell instead of these poor adaptations that go nowhere and simply add more trash to the over saturation anime has? Also they had an episode where they do a copy and paste the Bachelor and I am just wondering, does this town even need to be saved if they have time for doing this reality tv crap? One more thing from this show is that they added a filler episode about finding this 13th person, because the protagonist wasn’t sure if it could a male or a female but the tanuki tries to pull off a “It’s just a prank dude” to just say the 13th person is the girl that kindergardens the stellar children. Who wrote the script for this? Did they even checked what the hell they were writing? The worst part from this show are the characters but one of them that really I wanted to grab a gun and freaking shut his mouth was the Tanuki. Oh My Gawd, this thing is a pain to the ears. This character is the definition of a try hard comedian. He is like those boys at school that find about something related to sex and they tell the same joke over and over and over until someone shuts them. This character was created so desperately to make you laugh but fails miserably with the poor attempts of self-awareness, 4th wall and sex jokes. The main protagonist is simply a fuckboy, he at first thinks that this compromise is hard for him and thinks that is not great to have sexual relationships with his cousin at first but then the character goes on a 360 and doesn’t care anymore and he will do it with anything and I mean it ANYTHING, he does so much that in the end he has relationships with the freaking tanuki. Yeah there is even bestiality in this thing. Finally, the girls, and the only thing I can say is that they are sex objects. Sorry but no sorry this is what they do in the show, they are bland as hell and you can only remember for their unidimensional characteristics and maybe their zodiac signs but that’s it. I can’t say more of uncharismatic characters. The art and animation are simply boring. It is so below average; the faces all look the same except with different colors. The Stellar Kids look like retarded forms of Yokai Watch characters. The backgrounds are lifeless, and the pseudo battles we have in this show are quick and without action. The only thing that they seemed to waste the animation was on the ending credits with annoying tanuki moving in a weird way, which I could say it is the only good thing from this crapfest. Honestly Gonzo what happened to you? Even if you did crap like Rosario + Vampire the freaking art style and animation was beautiful, How did these guys get so low in the animation industry? The music is also so out of touch. They throw melodramatic songs here and there, but it feels so forced because the characters being so simplistic doesn’t help with the situations they are and the voice actors can’t redeem these characters, they sound so boring and they just tell the stuff without emotion, nothing, you could replace it with text to speech program and you could make these characters have a soul that they don’t have and the credit songs are generic as hell that you want to skip just to not make the pain longer. The ending is a big middle finger for trying to have drama. So our main protagonist has to sacrifice himself to save this not dangerous town from a monster in a labyrinth and he needs the help of the 13 girls and the 13 children, but the 13th girl dies so he gets a boost in power by doing a Maximum Evolution like in Digimon Tammers and he combines himself with the children to become an abhorrent copy of Gallantmon and they save this world but the Stellar Children also die in that sacrifice, so he goes back home with his cousin but all the girls follow him and even the girl that died for some reason that I don’t know comes back to life, simply I give up in trying process the plot of this thing. My final thoughts on Conception. This is a poor attempt on making someone play the game. Honestly if this supposed to be an RPG then why don’t you show the action of it instead of this “I must have all the waifus max out excrement? Everything is so dull but so annoying. I even had to reproduce the final episodes in 2x faster because it was intolerable to watch this in complete 24 minutes. This is everything from my part. This is kevsan, thanks for taking your time in reading this. English is not my first language but I try my best.
