Watch VoirFilms. The Ultraman Neos Pilot is a proof-of-concept film that was shown to TBS producers in 1995 but the project of a full series was cancelled. The Neos characters and concepts would later be realized as a 12-episode direct-to-video series in 2000. The pilot was not fully released to the public until its inclusion in the Blu-ray release of Ultraman Neos in 2018.