“Behold: the real-life anime girl. Anastasiya Shpagina, a 19-year-old Ukrainian woman, has brightly colored hair, pale skin and a doe-eyed stare that could be mistaken for an actual cartoon — it looks as if she’s walked straight off the television screen (of a “Sailor Moon” episode, obvi). The online sensation has managed to carve out an internet niche for herself, filling a void for anime lovers who want to turn themselves into living, breathing Japanese cartoon characters like Shpagina. And, surprisingly, it looks like that was a pretty big void — her Facebook fan page has almost 12,000 likes and her “Flower Fairy” tutorial video has over half a million views on YouTube…”.* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and Irina Nichita break it down on The Young Turks.

*Read more here from Rebecca Adams / The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/01/anastasiya-shpagina-anime-cartoon-pictures-photos-surgery_n_1929012.html

Watch another take on this story from Pop Trigger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOWycofoJk