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Well, well, maybe he should have been doing animation all along ...

As frustrating as Versus director Ryuhei Kitamura can be when working in live action (which is very), when you think about it most of his annoying excesses in that format are things generally considered strengths in animation. Hyperactive camera motion? Lots of posturing and over emoting? These are not issues so much in the animated world, and neither are the high levels of production design that Kitamura generally demands but frequently cannot deliver on his tight live action budgets. And so the hopes are high for Baton, Kitamura’s first foray into directing animation. And it certainly doesn’t hurt that he’s brought All About Lily Chou Chou director Shunji Iwai along for the ride as a producer.

Produced for the 150th anniversary of Yokohama, Baton employs a mix of traditional and rotoscoped animation. And it is, of course,...

Back in March we brought you the first footage for this special little rotoscoped/anime scifi out of Japan which is directed by both Ryuei Kitamura and Shunji Iwai. We still don't have a synopsis but we know this: "Baton is set on a future Earth in which the two main characters, Apollo and Michal, will live side by side with intelligent robots."

Trailer after the break. via our friend at Aht...

While browsing my bookmarks I noticed that the official website for Ryuhei Kitamura and Shunji Iwai’s rotoscope anime Baton starring Hayato Ichihara and Aya Ueto has been updated with a new trailer. It only runs ten seconds longer than the first trailer I wrote about back in March but shows a lot of new material because there are less text overlays.

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Baton is a new anime from director Ryuhei Kitamura (Versus, Azumi) and Shunji Iwai (April Story, All About Lily Chou-Chou) that is being produced by Us animation studio titmouse (huh?). There’s not much known about the story at the moment See update below!, only that Aya Ueto and (Hayato Ichihara will play the two main characters Apollo and Micha(?)l who live together with intelligent robots on a future Earth.

The three, about 20 minutes long Episodes of Baton will be shown during the 150th anniversary celebration of the city of Yokohama from April 28 to September 27.

[See post to watch Flash video] According to the development studio Wild Boar Media, Baton is a mixture of “traditional rotoscope animation with added 2D and 3D effects”…the result kinda looks like A Scanner Darkly gets drunk with Freedom on a cocktail party thrown by Ralph Bakshi.

Update: Nippon Cinema has come up with a detailed synopsis for the flick:

On Planet Abel,...