# Baton
*Also known as: バトン*

## Facts
- Format: MOVIE
- Status: concluded
- Year: 2009
- Season: SPRING

## Renewal Score
**Baton** has a **31% renewal probability** on Courcast (confidence: 74%) as of 2026-06-03.

## Synopsis
Project to mark Yokohama City's 150th anniversary.
On Planet Abel, humans and robots co-exist. One day a mysterious stowaway on a transport vessel tries to invade the planet, but is discovered by Apollo (Hayato Ichihara), a robot that looks like a human; and Mikaru (Aya Ueto), a human that looks like a robot. The stowaway had in his possession a memory chip containing the latest in camouflage software, the mysterious “Cipher” OS. Apollo takes the Cipher chip simply for fun, but has no idea what 

## About Courcast
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*Last updated: 2026-06-03*