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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

To give a simple explanation, especially since Die obviously won't have any context, it was a huge multi-media effort to revitalize and redefine the Ultraman franchise back in 2004, which ultimately failed to achieve the kind of success or lasting impact I think Tsuburaya was hoping for. Ultraman ended up looking backwards shortly thereafter, finding more success appealing to nostalgia with shows like Ultraman Max and Ultraman Mebius, and that's arguably still the direction of the franchise to this day, placing a huge emphasis on continuity and reliable, familiar faces.

That's actually quite a bit of a rumor that the fanbase perpetuates quite a bit. This article that delves deep into the entire Ultra N Project production history. But one tibit revealed was the intent of the project wasn't to radically alter the franchise but just as a weird little one-off where the team behind it had Tsuburaya full trust to make it however they wanted just for a little while. (Also this blog is awesome so well researched and great resource for Ultraman production history. I implore everyone to give it look to read some fascinating trivia about Ultraman and the love/care as well as context for the franchise state of being over the years.)

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The way these images put it, apparently – and this is something I never knew before – the "N" in the title represented three key concepts of the project. NOA NOSTALGIA, NEXT EVOLUTION, and NEXUS TRINITY. The first word of each is also a reference to the names of the three central Ultramen, who I never noticed were all connected by that letter before, because I'm just dumb that way.

Yeah Noa was definitly the mascot character and the emphasis of the word N is seen quite clearly in this trailer.