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[SPOILER FREE REVIEW]
First of all, I apologize for the bad English.
Kanashimi no Belladonna is what happens when hentai becomes art. The erotic scenes, here, aren't just sex. Belladonna of Sadness is a real journey through the misogynist universe of Christianity, exploring every single detail of the suffering of women in a sexist society in the most beautiful way that is possible.

Story: 10/10

The story isn't some Texhnolyze-like complex plot, but it's as sensitive and brainy as. The story follows Jeanne, a christian woman in a truly medieval European scenery (not like Nanatsu no Taizai or Meine Liebe, where there's no representation of the poor people's suffering ... by the abusive governments and famine), that wants to get married with a poor guy, but is impeded by the class prejudice, and then get abandoned by him. In the night which Jeanne was supposed to marry, she's raped by some demoniac entity and, therefore, she has no outlet for her awakened libido. The story, like I already said, isn't used to pornographic purposes, but it's a way to report the rape questions, the oppressing structure of marriage, the sexist nature of the religion, the unfortunately very common victim blaming and the sexual freedom of women, which is restricted by the christian society.

Art: 10/10

The overview of the plot is kinda fantastic, but it can get greater. The story isn't only told by the dialogues and events. It's told by the art too.
The animation is a surrealistic-like, semi-static, very beautiful and meaningful art. Some details improves a lot the story, and I can't even imagine the work it demanded.
Looks like some drawn poetry, an autistic and eccentric unknown vision of the reality, an artistic way to view the hurt. It's the greatest art I ever seen in anime.

Sound: 10/10

Even the sound here is, someway, feminist. The musics reports the sexism in every small act of the daily life, and if you understand Japanese, the experience can be even greater.

Character: 9/10

If I say that, in 1 hour and 29 minutes of pure surrealistic art, the director developed a three-dimensional character, would you believe? So watch it. Jeanne is a god tier character of all-time movies.
Each character represents some group of people which is involved in prejudiced relations, and to watch it is to get more empathic.

Enjoyment: 10/10

It's outstanding. There's three ways to enjoy or not the movie:
1. Appreciating the humanist messages and denunciations of this masterpiece;
2. Appreciating the not-so-satisfactory pornographic scenes like a masturbation-addicted guy;
3. Depreciating the more-than-coherent critic that the movie make to your religion, being a close-minded and limited person.

But, in all these ways, it's hard to watch Belladonna of Sadness, and it's good: the movie transmitted to you the feeling it has and is.

Overall: 9.9/10

It's a journey through the sexist society of Christianity. An unique experience. A fucking (haha) masterpiece.

[SPOILER ALERT][THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS]

Honestly, I hate when a movie tries to be almost literally everything it is not.
Tries to be philosophical in some aspects, but it's shallow, flat. The only "philosophical" aspect in all the useless one hour and 21 minutes of movie is some outdated and cliché life lessons;
Tries to be great, revolutionary, deconstructed, conceptual... But it's fails miserably. The show failed in almost ALL the aspects it tried to innovate, and, amazingly, the best parts of it are the 1980s generic american movie parts;
Tries to be post-apocalyptic, dystopian, but it's climate is just badly done. Simply mediocre, it seems more ... like a Sylvester Stallone frenetic shooting movie, and
Tries to be complex, artistic, dementia... But the only thing I really can't understand is why someone likes this movie.
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Story: 2/10, dreadful
The plot is simply one of the best plots I have ever seen in movies. 5 years ago, a wind named Amnesia deleted all the humans' memories. It would be kinda good if the story had followed someone suffering and avoiding this apocalyptic wind. But it isn't what happens in that master-piece of shit. Kaze no Na wa Amnesia follows a random dude, who was taught by a blonde boy to speak, and, during his growth, he could understand his situation.
In the beginning, the show makes you believe that it's an epic adventure of a random dude avoiding machines that want to kill him. But...
"Wow! It's so good, an adventure movie with good plot!"
No... It's not an adventure movie, because 10 seconds after it, the random dude starts to explain his history for an apparently random girl, for practically no reason.
"Wow, so, it is a 'biographic' movie! Nice!"
No, it isn't. Because 20 minutes later (filled with a relatively good story, considering the rest of the film), starts some Kino no Tabi-like journey, discovering some new cultures and all that blah-blah-blah.
"Wow! So it's really an adventure existentialist movie!"
No, because some tedious and boring minutes later, it starts to become a badly done social critic for society, that doesn't matter to the plot and doesn't even make enough sense to be considered a valid critic.
"Ah... Matrix-like film?"
No. Because the protagonists (which have nothing to be protagonists) starts an annoying romance and the movie tries to resurrect the "conspiracy" of the first minutes. And then, with a unbearable fight between the random dude (named Wataru) and a Mecha, the movie ends with an unnecessary sexual scene.
Basically, the creator had a good idea to the plot, the synopsis. But the execution is one of the worst executions of anime I ever seen.

Art: 7/10, good
It's not a necessarily bad aspect, but the trait is disturbing. Despite Wataru and the sacrificed girl, there's no character that really seems like a human. It was the unique point I could remember, but it's not bad or good, it's just uncomfortable, and the movie hasn't a comfortable or uncomfortable atmosphere. Although, the Madhouse production was amazing, like it always is.

Sound: 5/10, mediocre
Honestly, it's just forgettable. Nothing really important can be explained in this topic.

Character: 2/10, dreadful
The character development in this show is so bad. Everything Wataru witnesses haven't any effect in his personality. Yeah, the character is the same in the entire movie. He is the only human able to talk, because Sophia is an Alien, and Johnny... Is an alien? Wait, wait. Why the fuck the only two aliens that appears in the movie doesn't agree with the Amnesia? If Sophia knows that Wataru is a human and able to talk, it means she's not interested in delete his memories. So, how the screenwriter thought I would believe that the aliens excluded the humans' memories? And why they did it? The movie makes suspense and mystery to something it simply doesn't explain.
I was thinking, and the only explanation I found is a little bit "philosophical", so, I think it can be what the screenwriter was thinking when wrote Kaze no Na wa Amnesia. The aliens could have deleted the humans' memories and then chosen someone (Wataru) to teach the mankind, because they saw the human degeneration, Wataru is the messiah, and the aliens, the superior specie, are God. Well, it's a little bit philosophical, but nothing in the movie indicates it, it's just a crazy theory, and shows how the movie is shallow.

Enjoyment: 1/10, pathetic
The movie is made of 1h21min of pure boring scenes and shallow dialogues. It doesn't focused in none of the one trillion themes it tried to approach, and it makes the movie one of the most disappointing pieces I ever watched. The characters are pathetic, the dialogue scenes are flat, there's a unjustifiable sexual scene in the end, the soundtrack is just okay and the art isn't important enough in this type of anime to save this film. The show simply doesn't give the answers to the questions that it proposed.
And who the fuck was the conspirator that tried to exterminate Wataru?

Overall: 3/10, poor
Ultimately, Kaze no Na wa Amnesia was one of the worst experiences I ever had. There's nothing really good here. It's like a banquet of themes, where all the menu is variations of exotic foods - and all of them are made using various types of monkey shit.

Artificial consciousness. Emotions. Empathy. Power. Scientific Development. Religion. Segregation. Fascism. With all these themes, the show looks like a 2010s movie, but it's a 60s story by the manga God Tezuka Osamu, and, combined with the visionary, beautiful and well-worked direction of the anime God Otomo Katsuhiro, Metropolis is, by far, one of the best movies ever made.

Story: 8/10
The plot is perfect, seems like a Urasawa Naoki manga and the conceptual social sci-fi was well-placed, combining mythology and science, like every Otomo's pieces. It's a political movie, so, the ideological discussions being so well-wrote has increased a lot more.
The only defect I can find in ... the story is the classical Akira unique mistake: the self-overrated ending. The director has the bad habit of thinking their pieces are more than they actually is, and all Otomo's anime endings are pretty outcast and edgy, but not in a good way.
If it wasn't a police mystery thriller, the movie would get 9/10 in terms of story, but this genre needs good ending to get a good story rating.

Art: 10/10
Using a modern version of Tezuka's trait, the art of Metropolis is kinda nostalgic, and the animation is perfect. The Akira-like machine details, the kodomo style and simple visual effects turned the piece into a reference in terms of art.

Sound: 9/10
There's no nostalgic non-mute movies without a good soundtrack, and Metropolis isn't an exception. Jazz, blues and 20th century pop had increase a lot the movie, and all the tracks were well-placed.

Character: 7/10
The movie focus isn't the character development, despite it's kinda well-worked to a one and a half hour movie. Well, it's nothing like Perfect Blue or another Kon Satoshi's piece, but it has unforgettable characters and brilliant protagonists, combined with the well-done character design.

Enjoyment: 10/10
The dialogues are pleasant, the movie atmosphere is nice and the story is well-wrote, with a jealousy script and incredible direction.

Overall: 8/10
Buy it if you like: current topics discussions, good animation, good soundtrack, good level of story, soft thriller and social sci-fi plot.
Don't buy it if you don't like: conceptual sci-fi, peculiar endings and dialogue-focused movies.

[First review] [bad english]

Story: 1/10
Like every cliché shounen, The Seven Deadly Sins has a mediocre and linear story, that is only used to justify fanservice and nonsense fights. The plot follows Meliodas, a very dumb and innocent dude (despite he always abuse his friend Elizabeth and, sometimes, turns into a demon), who is unjustifiably determined to help the princess that he knew 2 seconds ago.
It's basically a generic copy of Fullmetal Alchemist, but one thousand times worse.

Art: 5/10
The animation is fine, but the trait is just terrible, and the character design is so badly done.

Sound: 5/10
The sound composition is, ultimately, just okay. It's fundamentally ... common teenager J-Rock, and nothing more.

Character: 1/10
Nanatsu No Taizai's characters are quite one-dimensional, although they are projected to be great. Meliodas is a pathetically cliché shounen protagonist, following Dragon Ball Z and Naruto molds. Elizabeth is the Lucy Heartfilia of the show, an unbearable girl who is only used to make fanservice scenes and incite the virgin jerk-offers to search for hentai. Other characters are equally terrible, as exemple, Ban is just pure pose, and divinized by fans only for being the greedy anti-hero (ps: he is the greed, but gives up of immortality, because a girl asked for him give up).

Enjoyment: 1/10
With all these defects, it's hard to say that something in the show is enjoyable. The Seven Deadly Sins falls in all the aspects of a good show, it's very uncomfortable to watch, mainly because EVERY episode has at least one rape scene.

Overall: 1/10
The conclusion is: Nanatsu no Taizai is the most sexist non-hentai anime and the worst battle shounen ever made, even worse than 5-minutes YouTube homemade animations.