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I went in not knowing what I was getting into, and I must say I was pleasantly surprised. Sakasama no Patema is a very sweet story of a girl meeting a boy while in very difficult positions regarding the other. It's almost like Romeo and Juliet, although this story focusses less on romance and more on resolving the issues between both of the sides they are on.

Story: The story was good in the beginning, it was clear what was happening although you were not really sure to which party it was happening, and plot holes barely presented themselves. Later in the movie the story ... trips up a bit though, as it introduces 2 characters that are badly handled. One of them is very clichéd, while the other does not get enough exposure to justify his behavior. The ending also leaves you with a few questions you really should not be having in a film like this.

Art: The art is very decent, and the quality of the animation is hardly something you can speak ill of.

Sound: The sound was generally done well, and it matched the animation very well too. The music was not outstanding by any stretch of the imagination, but it was definitely not annoying either, slinking into the background very well, being more of a device used for ambience than something that makes the scene.

Characters: The main characters were done well. Both of their personalities are adventurous, which is nothing we haven't seen before, but they are handled well and there are really no valid complaints I could make about them.
2 other characters (I won't say who they are to avoid spoilers) are treated very badly though. As I said in my introduction, one of them is a cliché, and the other did not get enough development to justify his actions, which is of course a hard thing to pull off with only 100 minutes of time, but still.

Overall: I enjoyed it. It is a very sweet and heartfelt film, despite its negative points. The film did get a little worse the longer it went on, but a little worse than good is still pretty good, so overall this gets a strong seven from me.