in many aspects, from the Demon Lords as to how the Demon Lords of Melancholy and Vanity are even here which calls back to Eight Evil thoughts by Evagrius Ponticus and why Envy isn't a Demon Lord yet and the most obvious artistic liberty Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai did is with Dante's Inferno by referencing Cocytus as well as the Gates of Hell a la Circles of Hell. Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai's artistic liberties and referencing of Christian Hell is by in a ways a good alternative look into Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai's world and this draw adds into some of the Demon Lords. As such the Demon Lords Satan, Belphegor and Astaroth are probably the best character developed focused episodes as well as the most likable characters as they kinda followed suit to their symbolism to their sins respectively with Astaroth being LA's favourite character just from her likable personality as well as the best episode focused on her in this entire series however...she has her flaws but that a bit later.So, to sinning this anime. This anime is inconsistent as hell pardon the pun, but from episodes where yes they focused on the Sin of the Week, the inconsistency arises the quality of the episodes in question from outright horrible viewing experience to all-round good episodes and this affects the Sins in question as well. The Sins to fall victim to this are Asmodeus (Lust) because yes...the Lust episode is EXACTLY what you think to happen in a TNA anime, Mammon (Greed) for it's quality control broken (mainly the rigid fight scenes and plot stupidly off putting) and Mammon's development is rushed to all hell and Beelzebub (Gluttony) for being the reverse symbolism of her sins lore and being a rather fillery episode for her. Next sin and this is more obvious to a certain character and that's Maria, the tag along character and one of the main narrative-focused characters in the anime, she's a plain Mary Sue, that's kinda a problem in the outset but the biggest problem lies in the fact that she's tagged along for the ride and her motivations or development only concerns Lucifer nothing else...a perfect definition of a one-note character and she stands like this for the majority of the anime. Next sin goes obvious to the TNA part of this anime and it's all over the place, what's worse?...it's censored with these spinning red glyphs that gets in the way of it, LA gets WHY they did it, to make people buy the uncensored Blu-ray vers. of it but this practice pretty much needs to stop even in these ecchi-fest anime, as there is just no point when ohhh LA doesn't know, how about when we see violence here such as someone being stabbed in major detail (with blood pouring out of the stab wound) to some torturous BDSM imagery and fetishes shown in "subtle detail" and THAT isn't censored yet TNA is, but yeah it's for the sales right?...geez this anime's censorship has Greed's prints all over it. Next sin would go to Leviathan (Envy), she's the psycho lesbian of the anime and is completely in love with Lucifer but has to contend with Maria thus her envy, she is just an annoyance every scene she's in and she NEVER changes (though her psycho lesbian tendencies goes from yandere to tsundere), nonetheless one of the most annoying characters in the series. Next sin would go to Belial (Vainglory) and her motivations and backstory of her really, she's a one-note villain much like Maria is a one-note main protagonist, her motivations are just soo one-note it just makes her villainy all the more apparent and just to say "I'm the MAJOR VILLAIN...right?", her backstory feels half-assed in many aspects though some of the symbolism "saves" her but not enough, if you think Maria is bad as a bland character, LA thought Belial was much worse. The last sin would go to the ending in some ways, as much as it wanted to go out in a bang, the anime just found new ways for LA to question this notion, as such making us pity Lucifer to Belial and even Maria but was kinda undone by the finale anyways in many aspects and worst off was make Astaroth be a yes man to Belial but LA won't put THAT against her as again "symbolism" saved her from the disdain LA had towards the ending...NO the pure scorn LA had for this ending came in form of Maria and that "miracle" of an ass pull ending.In terms of animation by TNK and Artland, the animation has it's high points with very exotic character designs (sans Belial's Gnosis outfit) and some of the backgrounding was very well done in some areas. Where the animation fell flat is in it's non-impactful battles as they mostly rely on beam-spamming to perspective-focused shots when some battles needed a wide-angel view of the impact, it is in a ways cutting corners for the battle scenes and probably next to the censored TNA, the battle scenes were lacking. To say the least, LA wanted to end the animation talk a bit more gracefully as it was mediocre to slightly above average at times but from what LA heard, Artland filed for bankruptcy, making this their last spurt...saddening but inevitably due to the reception Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai got.In terms of voice acting, ok so for Spring 2017, you know how LA had been hinting on Akane Fujita's voice acting, well her as Leviathan was probably the worst LA has seen her as, yes her annoying tendencies were THAT bad, but the worst voice actor would go to quite easily Megumi Toda as Maria, she was just straight up bland in most of her performance in which LA doesn't blame the voice actor as she didn't have much to work with but nonetheless. Ohh Shizuka Ito, LA wanted to like Belial and Shizuka Ito's prima donna villainy vocals weren't enough for LA to say that this is one of her most narmy and displeasing roles LA had seen from her (right next to her role as Suzuna Hiiragi from Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou (anyone remember that atrocity?)). On the brighter note, Azusa Tadokoro as Astaroth, Eri Kitamura as Lucifer, Arisa Sakurada as Satan and Ai Kakuma as Belphegor were all great as their characters with Azusa Tadokoro being LA's favourite voice actor no matter how little screentime she got. Overall as much of a mixed bag of voice cast this anime has, the vocal work was ok if you withstand the "moaning" if you know what LA means...Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai is as much of an inconsistent mess as much as it's plot and as much LA likes the symbolism of this anime to the few likable characters given, it's "symbolism" and it's few developed to likable characters are NOT enough for LA to give it the grace LA would had given it. To be frank this anime like it's inconsistency fell into lots of titles for LA, from one of LA's guiltiest pleasures of Spring 2017, to one of the Top 3 worst animes of Spring 2017 to just "meh ecchi series" and really the fatal blow to Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai was it's ending that caused LA to say that Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai belongs in the Top 3 Worst Animes of Spring 2017 for LA, it has glimmers of a good TNA guilty pleasure anime with some Dante Inferno Sin lore but ultimately those glimmers were not enough for the mess of a plot, bland to annoying to lacking character development to half of it's cast, unnecessary censorship, lacking animation, how mean spirited it is and that asspull of an ending.Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai tries to be an anime with fanservice FIRST before having a plot to go with it, which is odd considering all the research they did to make the Seven Deadly Sins lore as well as the fanservice being obviously marred by the stupid censorship and "crossing the line twice moments". But you just can't expect much from an anime where the focus is primarily on the forced TNA and Blu-ray sales.Which Circle of Hell would Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai be best put in? Fourth or Fifth?