Patema Inverted
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Japanese DVD cover art
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サカサマのパテマ (Sakasama no Patema) |
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| Original net animation | |
| Patema Inverted: Beginning of the Day | |
| Directed by | Yasuhiro Yoshiura |
| Written by | Yasuhiro Yoshiura |
| Studio | Purple Cow Studios Japan |
| Released | February 26, 2012 – August 25, 2012 |
| Runtime | 6 minutes |
| Episodes | 4 |
| Anime film | |
| Directed by | Yasuhiro Yoshiura |
| Written by | Yasuhiro Yoshiura |
| Music by | Michiru Ōshima |
| Studio | Purple Cow Studios Japan |
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| Released | November 9, 2013 |
| Runtime | 99 minutes |
Patema Inverted (サカサマのパテマ Sakasama no Patema?) is a 2013 Japanese animated science fiction drama film written and directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura. It was released in Japan on November 9, 2013. A four-episode original net animation (ONA) series, Patema Inverted: Beginning of the Day, streamed in 2012. The film was also shown in the UK.
Cinedigm and GKIDS released the film on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on November 11, 2014. The film received mainly positive reviews from critics, praising its originality, characters, and plot.
In 2067, scientists attempt to harness energy from gravity. The gravity reverses, however, and nearly everyone and everything is sent flying from Earth.
Years later, Patema is a respected teenager who lives in an underground society - Aiga- which imposes rules to keep its members away from "danger zones" that surround the community. Inspired by her friend Lagos, who has mysteriously disappeared, Patema explores the tunnels. One day, she is startled by a figure that walks on the ceiling while exploring and falls into the shaft below.
Patema falls outside the fence bordering Aiga. Age, another teenager, finds her on the fence. Her gravity is inverted from his. After carrying her safely to the ground, he takes her to a nearby shed, where they learn about each other's worlds. Age tells Patema about his father, who supposedly fell from a flying craft while demonstrating it, inspired by what the government dubs the "Inverts".
Aiga's controlling leader, Izamura, discovers Patema's presence and has his troops capture her. Age discovers that by holding Patema, her inverted gravity makes him lighter, reducing the speed at which he falls. They evade the troops, but are soon captured. Age is scolded and reprimanded, while Izamura takes Patema to the Control Tower, threatening to release her into the sky, He shows her that he had captured Lagos, who died since, and imprisons her on the top floor with an inverted weight, with only glass maintaining her weight.
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