User blog comment:SolZen321/What are UItras made of?/@comment-1733689-20131006021508/@comment-5527544-20131012164548

In the showa era they knew to call the new hero Ultraman and also Max may have many homages to the showa era there are no direct links. The only link was with Alien Metron and that is dubious at best considering in the early episodes, I think it was three they clearly stated that Max was an unknown being to them, which is contradictory of the fact that Metron was defeated by Seven, who resembles Max more than any other previous Ultra. There is no defined connection to the Showa era with Max, homages yes, but they established Early on that.

Look at Alien Baltan his back story was completely different from the Showa universe, as where his motivations. Instead of being homeless invaders he believed mankind was dangerous and would spread chaos across space, they believed it to the point they caused a civil war that ruined their own world.

Max has alot of similarities to the Showa era but it is it's own stand alone continuity.