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1	* {{Anvilicious}}: The film bangs viewers over the head with its message about female liberation, culminating in a final sequence [[spoiler: showing women leading the French Revolution.]]
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: There's no denying the level of effort and skill that went into the animation; even the still pans are beautiful works of watercolor and ink. [[http://belladonnaofsadness4k.tumblr.com/post/121137522669/paint Take]] [[http://belladonnaofsadness4k.tumblr.com/post/121074673184/the-lord-and-the-priest a]] [[http://belladonnaofsadness4k.tumblr.com/post/121137111564/above-the-sd-digibeta-below-from-our-4k-scan look]] at [[http://belladonnaofsadness4k.tumblr.com/post/121125553214/things-start-off-with-a-lovely-wedding some of it]].
3	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
4	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFWdrYX2fs&index=3&list=PL6NWBtEBKnYFQ3GU8BMFMpWTEAvJMOt3C Masahiko Sato's score]], particularly "Take It Easy" and "Valle Incantata."
5	** The gorgeous and melancholy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFWdrYX2fs Kanashimi no Belladonna]].
6	* CompleteMonster: The [[AristocratsAreEvil nameless baron]] represents the [[DecadentCourt worst excesses and cruelties]] of the nobility. When Jeanne cannot pay the exorbitant fee for a wedding, the baron [[DroitDuSeigneur rapes her]] and allows his courtiers to rape her as well. Taxing the people into starvation, the baron tortures his tax collectors for not taking in enough, including Jeanne's husband Jean, whose hand he removes. When he finds his wife sleeping with a Page, he kills them both, while also growing jealous of Jeanne's growing power and influence as a witch in curing TheBlackDeath. When Jeanne refuses his overtures, he angrily orders her [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]].
7	* CultClassic: Among alternative anime fans.
8	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Became popular among American arthouse audiences after it was rereleased on Blu Ray in 2016.
9	* HilariousInHindsight: The "witch hand sign" which appears all over the film is nowadays most frequently associated with German chancellor Angela Merkel, who often does the exact same hand sign.
10	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The baron is a despicable rapist who [[spoiler:ends up as an absolute KarmaHoudini (unless you count TheFrenchRevolution being a thing)]], the Devil is ''also'' a rapist who corrupts Jeanne into selling her soul to him, Jeanne herself is relentlessly victimized throughout the entire film, and Jean is a DirtyCoward who ultimately ends up working for the Baron in setting his own wife, Jeanne, up to be killed.
11	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Although it doesn't take place in the 1970s, Jeanne and Jean's full hair, the trippy images derived from ArtNouveau, and the quirky folk-rock soundtrack make it pretty obvious that the film was made in the early '70s.
12	* VindicatedByHistory: A financial flop on release, the film has gone on to become a CultClassic.

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