Sakasama no Patema
English title: Patema Inverted
Japanese title: サカサマのパテマ
Alternative titles: Sakasama no Patema
Type: Movie
Source: Original
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Nov 9, 2013
Duration: 1 hr 38 min
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: Studio Rikka, Purple Cow Studio Japan
Producers: Directions, Asmik Ace, Good Smile Company, Kadokawa
Licensors: GKIDS
Genres: Adventure, Award Winning, Sci-Fi

Patema is a plucky young girl from an underground civilization boasting an incredible network of tunnels. Inspired by a friend that mysteriously went missing, she is often reprimanded due to her constant excursions of these tunnels due to her royal status. After she enters what is known as the "forbidden zone," she accidentally falls into a giant bottomless pit after being startled by a strange creature.

Finding herself on the surface, a world literally turned upside down, she begins falling towards the sky only to be saved by Age, a discontented student of the totalitarian nation known as Aiga. The people of Aiga are taught to believe that "Inverts," like Patema, are sinners that will be "swallowed by the sky," but Age has resisted this propaganda and decides to protect his new friend. A chance meeting between two curious teenagers leads to an exploration of two unique worlds as they begin working together to unveil the secrets of their origins in Sakasama no Patema, a heart-warming film about overcoming differences in order to coexist.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Sakasema no Patema was shown at selected countries like the UK while Cinedigm handled the Blu-ray and DVD releases for North America. Patema Inverted won the Audience Award and the Judges Award during the 2013 Scotland Loves Anime. It was also nominated for Best Animated Feature Film during the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards.