Baton

Baton

65 mins | Comedy, Action, Animation, Romance | April 28, 2009

Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.

Baton

65 mins | Comedy, Action, Animation, Romance | April 28, 2009

Baton
Baton is a collection of three 20-minute Sci-fi anime films dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the establishment of Yokohama city. On Planet Abel, human-like robot Apollo (Ichihara Hayato, Rookies) and robot-like human Mikaru (Ueto Aya, Azumi) come upon a stowaway robot with a mysterious "Cipher" chip. Not knowing Cipher's powers, Apollo takes the chip for fun, throwing both him and Mikaru headfirst into a mind-boggling mystery that affects the past, present, and future.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers Rockwell Eyes, Titmouse, Tsuburaya Productions
Original title バトン
Directors Ryuhei Kitamura
Writers Shunji Iwai

Cast

Hayato Ichihara

as Apollo (voice)

Aya Ueto

as Mikaru (voice)

Kane Kosugi

as Saturn (voice)

Tatsuya Fujiwara

as Cipher (voice)

Takashi Naito

as Tomboy (voice)

Hiroyuki Watanabe

as Robot Guard (voice)

IZAM

as Mysterious Man (voice)

Kazushi Sakuraba

as Robot Guard (voice)

Kenji Kohashi

as Passenger (voice)

Masakatsu Funaki

as Hades (voice)

Miki Yoshimura

as Lucy (voice)

Mimura

as Hiroko Yazaki (voice)

Monsieur Kamayatsu

as Observer (voice)

NorA

as Medusa (voice)

Ren Osugi

as Dr. Newton (voice)

Shintaro Matsubara

as Artemis (voice)