Artist and model Matt Kuwata is mostly known as the son of Japanese legendary baseball player Masumi Kuwata, but in recent years he has attracted a lot of attention for his dramatic physical transformation. Somehow, the 24-year-old went from looking like a Japanese teenage boy, to a Caucasian, doll-like man.

Matt’s appearance has been a hot topic on Japanese social media for the last couple of years, with some people simply admiring his “foreign prince” or “anime character” looks, and others speculating that he had undergone extensive plastic surgery to achieve the shocking transformation. Even though the young man’s face has been constantly changing over the last two years, the photos he started posting on his Instagram at the beginning of last year left a lot of people in shock. He looked nothing like his former self, and frankly he didn’t even look Japanese anymore. Instead, his face resembled that of a Caucasian human doll.

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Allegations of plastic surgery have surrounded Matt Kuwata for a very long time, but even after revealing what some have called his “final form”, the young man continued to deny having undergone any kind of facial reshaping. He insists that his dramatic transformation is a result of makeup mastery. Matt’s passion for beauty products and treatments is well-known in Japan, and he often promotes them on Instagram as well, but it’s still hard to believe they are the only tools used to achieve his current look.

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Personally, I think the 24-year-old Instagram star also uses a bit of digital editing to enhance his looks, as for plastic surgery… All I can say is that if this man can alter his appearance so dramatically with makeup alone, he may just be the world’s most talented makeup artist.

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Matt Kuwata is virtually unknown outside of Japan, but he recently attracted the attention of Western media outlets after being featured by Japanese magazine SoraNews24 for his unique looks.

We’ve seen guys going for the human-doll look before, like famous “real-life Ken doll” Rodrigo Alves, or Brazilian model Mauricio Galdi, but none of them have even come close to what Matt Kuwata has achieved.

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