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The art of illustration is a funny thing, because it relies on using lines and coloring to trick the mind into thinking it’s looking at a three-dimensional object. But if the whole effect is a matter of perspective, changing how you look at a picture will make you think you’re seeing something else.

Sometimes the result is cute, like when cherry blossom petals turn into a litter of puppies. At other times, the result is quite a bit pervier, like what one traveler can no longer unsee in the symbol for Japan’s bullet train.

Japanese Twitter user Kowa was recently at the station, waiting to hop on the bullet train to rapidly head off to another part of the country. The stations along the Shinkansen lines are usually pretty thorough with their signage, and sure enough, the direction of the Tokaido and Sanyo Line platforms was clearly marked.

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The sign even included a thoughtful graphical representation of the high-speed train, viewed from straight-on. As Kowa stared at the illustration, though, it stated to look like something else to him. The aerodynamic curves along the top of the car aren’t so different from that of the collar on a sailor suit school uniform, and as for those headlights? Well, they kind of look like…the other kind of headlights.

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https://twitter.com/kowa/status/638340475485708288

“My eyes became fixed on the sign, and I started to blush,” admits Kowa. Online reactions show that several other now share his perception.

“Oh wow, it does look like that!”
“I can’t see it as anything else anymore.”
“How voluminous!”
“You’re a genius!”

Not every station uses the exact same illustration, either. Just as different women have differently sized busts, some Shinkansen trains are apparently more largely endowed than others.

And don’t despair if you couldn’t previously see a busty chest in the Shinkansen illustration. It doesn’t mean you lack imagination, just that Kowa, who lists “thighs” and “imagining girls coming into contact with one another” as things he likes in his Twitter profile, sees the world a little differently than most people.

Source: Otakumu
Top image: Twitter/@kowa (edited by RocketNews24)
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