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Do you think this puts to rest any significance to the teaser's negative filter? While the new WTC5 image continues presenting white feathers, an inversed teaser image normalizes the atmosphere and blackens the feathers. That truly black feathers would be shown as white is intriguing (hopefully not merely pareidolia). Assuming the negative filter has any significance, innumerable black and/or white global birds exist: doves, seagulls, crows, ravens, herons, cranes, pelicans, etc. I know the significance of some of these in Buddhism and Hinduism, including the significance of the legendary garuda, who has significance particularly in samsara. Consider one of the Haworthia tracks translating to "sky of sunyata," which is apt for a white and/or black bird with spiritual significance (and that the sky of emptiness is above the fog and buildings in the teaser). This befits those mystical birds particularly. Or perhaps we're looking at some duality? Who knows?

But I never predicated my understanding of Umineko on the Buddhist or Hinduist significance of the seagull, which is why I'm not too invested in this aporetic strategy. The title creature was always an engine for the narrative—as mimesis—and not for the true magic/profundity.