| Overview |
"N" THE OTHER is a three-chapter novella that is included in the 2004 ULTRAMAN film DVD booklet. Written by Keiichi Hasegawa, it features parts of untold stories in the Ultra N Project and filling in plot holes from Ultraman Nexus. Each chapters are flashbacks told from the perspective of a character's recollection.
ACT 1: Visitor
Visitor took place in the year 1991 in Colorado, America and is told from the perspective of Hajime Yamaoka.
The Visitors were originally residents of a planet in the Messier 80 who thrived in their advanced scientific power. One day, the Space Beasts invaded and ravaged their planet, until the appearance of Ultraman Noa put a stop to their actions. As both the silver giant and Space Beasts lay dormant, the paranoid Visitors created their own copy of the former as their means of protection. Unfortunately their creation, known as Zagi, rebelled against his masters and sided with the revived Space Beasts in driving the planet to its destruction. The Visitors responded by detonating their mother planet in a supernova and assumed particle forms to traverse into planet Earth. Unfortunately Zagi anticipated their actions and did the same to the Space Beasts.
Both the destruction of their mother planet and the Visitors' arrival on Earth took place in the year 1989, where the US government attempted to establish mankind's first contact with the extraterrestrial life forms. By hiring scientists in secret, the government managed to get the help of Hayato Kaimoto to decipher the aliens' intentions. The resulting answer frightened one of the researchers, Hajime Yamaoka. The next day, Yamaoka would be possessed by Dark Zagi while on his way to the laboratory when the dark Ultra sensed his lingering fear from the Visitors' warning.
ACT 2: Abyss
Abyss took place in Shinjuku, Japan during the year 2004, while events of ULTRAMAN film was in progress from the perspective of Takafumi Udo.
Six months prior to ULTRAMAN, defense force member and submariner Takafumi Udo developed a romantic relationship with a BCST researcher Sara Mizuhara and proposed to her, intending to hold a marriage after he returned from a mission. Unfortunately for Takafumi, his last mission turned out to be investigating a strange object that fell into the ocean. While manning a DSRV, the meteorite then turned out to be a bright-glowing creature that then attacked his vehicle and assimilated with him.
Takafumi then snapped back into the present day, finding himself tattered within the underground space of Shinjuku. Just as he was about to reunite with Sara, he lost his consciousness again.
ACT 3: Resurrection
Resurrection took place in 2009, while recollections took place within the period between year 2004-2008, the gap where Ultraman disappears and eventually returning in another form. The story is told from the perspective of Sara Mizuhara.
In the year 1989, the same year where the Visitors made their arrival, the Space Beasts Zero made its attack by feeding on the livestock of nearby farms. The monster was quickly killed by the US military, but an intense coverup was made to ensure that the Space Beasts would not be revived through the fears of its victims. Through the Visitors' warning, TLT was established worldwide to anticipate the threat of Space Beasts and at the same time manipulating information from the general public. The incident with Ultraman the Next and Beast the One was too intense that TLT had to resort to using Lethe in erasing all the information of both Ultraman and the Space Beast. Amongst the TLT members, they hypothesized that the Ultraman had disappeared along with the monster he fought against. However, Sara, who was invited as one of the Beast researchers, was well aware that the Ultraman was still at large, as Takafumi's spirit foretold. Her lover's words came true after Kazuki Komon reported the appearance of Ultraman for the first time.