Starlight Kid

Starlight Kid (スターライト・キッド) is a Japanese professional wrestler.

She is currently signed to World Wonder Ring Stardom, where she a member of Oedo Tai.

Starlight Kid is a former one-time High Speed Champion, one-time Artist of Stardom Champion, one-time Future of Stardom Champion and one-time Goddess of Stardom Champion.

She is the first wrestler to wear her mask full-time in Stardom as part of her luchadora persona.

Greatly influenced by Lucha libre, Starlight Kid has followed Mexican tradition for masked wrestlers, so her real name is not a matter of public record.

Starlight Kid made her professional wrestling debut on October 11, 2015 in a three-way match in which she and Momo Watanabe lost to Kaori Yoneyama.

On November 8, she competed in her first major Stardom tournament, teaming up with Hiromi Mimura to compete in the 2015 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League.

The team lost in the first round to Watanabe & Datura.

After that, she would team up with Miura very often.

Kid spent most of her matches losing to other, more experienced wrestlers, which would help put over other wrestlers while at the same time giving Starlight Kid some in-ring, televised, experience.

Starting in June 2016, Kid took a year long break from wrestling.

She made her return on June 11, 2017.

In March 2018, she would participate in the tournament for the inaugural Future of Stardom Championship where she defeated Hanan in the first round and then she would defeat Shiki Shibusawa in the tournament final to become the inaugural Future of Stardom Champion, which was newly established at the Korakuen Hall Tournament, and became the first champion.

As a result of the 2018 Stardom Draft on April 15, 2018, Starlight Kid formed a stable with Mayu Iwatani, Saki Kashima, Shiki Shibusawa, Natsumi, and Tam Nakano after she was revealed as their fifth pick with stable being later named STARS.

On May 27, at Shining Stars, her first singles match with Io Shirai ended in defeat, but the audience highly praised it.

Post-match, AZM challenged her for the Future of Stardom Championship, and on June 3 at Queen's Fes In Sapporo, the match went to a time-limit draw.

From October 23 until November 4, Kid & Natsumi took part in the 2018 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, finishing the tournament with a record of two wins, two losses, and one draw, failing to advance to the tournament finals.

On January 3, 2019, Kid lost her title to Utami Hayashishita at New Years Stars, ending her reign at 281 days.

At Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2019 on April 29, she made it to the semi-finals where she fell short to Konami.

On the first night of the Stardom Cinderella Tournament 2021 from April 10, 2021, Kid defeated Momo Watanabe in the first rounds of the competition.

On the second night from May 14, she fell short to Saya Kamitani in the second rounds.

On the last night of the 2021 Cinderella Tournament from June 12, 2021, Kid left Stars stable after she, Koguma, Hanan, Iwatani and Rin Kadokura lost to Oedo Tai (Natsuko Tora, Konami, Fukigen Death, Ruaka & Saki Kashima) in a Ten-Woman Elimination Tag Team Match where the winner had to pick a member from the opposite unit with Oedo Tai picking Kid after she was eliminated in the end.

At Yokohama Dream Cinderella 2021 in Summer on July 4, 2021, Kid rebranded her outfit to fit Oedo Tai's colors wearing a black and purple outfit and mask.

She teamed up with Ruaka for the first time as an Oedo Tai member and fell short to Queen's Quest's Momo Watanabe & AZM.

Kid also challenged Tam Nakano for the Wonder of Stardom Championship unsuccessfully on July 21.

At the Stardom 5 Star Grand Prix 2021, Kid competed in the "Red Stars" block where she scored a total of 11 points.

On August 29, on the eighth night of the Grand Prix, Kid defeated Natsupoi to win High Speed Championship.

At Stardom 10th Anniversary Grand Final Osaka Dream Cinderella on October 9, 2021, Kid defended the High Speed Championship against Saki Kashima.

At the 2021 Goddesses of Stardom Tag League, Kid teamed up with Ruaka as "Kurotora Kaidou" and competed in the "Blue Goddess" block where they scored a total of seven points.

Since Kawasaki Super Wars, the first event of the Stardom Super Wars trilogy which took place on November 3, 2021, Kid would enter in the quest to recruit more members into Oedo Tai which would lead to a feud with Momo Watanabe who would later be a victim of Starlight Kid's mind games as the latter's strategy to recruit members to Oedo Tai.

First, Kid successfully defended the High Speed Championship against Watanabe on November 3.

At Tokyo Super Wars on November 27, she defended the High Speed title again against Koguma.

Kid's mind games against Watanabe eventually degenerated into an Eight-Woman Elimination Tag Team Match at in which both of them would be the captains of their respective teams.

The loser captain would be forced to join the enemy unit and if Kid lost, she would also have to unmask and reveal her real name.

The match took place on December 18, at Osaka Super Wars, the event which represented the last part of the "Super Wars" trilogy.

With the match coming down to the wire and Queen's Quest holding a 2 to 1 advantage over Kid, a shocking moment occurred when Watanabe betrayed her Queen's Quest and hit her long-time tag team partner AZM over the head with a chair, handing the win to Oedo Tai and with Kid keeping her mask and Watanabe joining the stable.

At Stardom Dream Queendom, Kid once again defended the High Speed title successfully against AZM and Koguma in a three-way match.

At Stardom Nagoya Supreme Fight on January 29, 2022, Kid teamed up with Momo Watanabe and defeated Utami Hayashishita & AZM.

At Stardom Cinderella Journey on February 23, 2022, she dropped the High Speed Championship to AZM.

At Stardom New Blood 1 on March 11, 2022, Kid teamed up with Ruaka to defeat World Woman Wrestling Diana's Haruka Umesaki & Nanami.