Wrestler Profile

Starlight Kid

Starlight Kid is Stardom's masked marvel gone gloriously wrong — the high-speed prodigy who traded silver sparkle for Oedo Tai's black mask and became the promotion's best young villain. Wrestling since her early teens, she matured into main-card excellence before age twenty.

Her eternal rivalry with AZM — teenage training partners turned career-long adversaries — defines Stardom's high-speed lineage, while her heel evolution added mist, interference and a delicious contempt that transformed her ceiling. Tag and high-speed championships decorate the climb.

The mask stays on; the trajectory stays vertical. WrestleRanks voters rank the Kid on craft-beyond-years: villainy this polished usually takes decades.

Promotions

Starlight Kid is associated with NJPW (2024–2026) and Stardom (2024–2026).

PWI rankings history

Starlight Kid has been ranked in PWI's annual women's rankings 6 times, first at No. 53 in 2018 and most recently at No. 14 in 2025. The highest placement is No. 9, reached in 2022.

Placements by year: 2018 (No. 53), 2021 (No. 76), 2022 (No. 9), 2023 (No. 76), 2024 (No. 106), 2025 (No. 14).

Compiled from the annual rankings published by Pro Wrestling Illustrated. See the 2025 edition.

Starlight Kid in the WrestleRanks rankings

Starlight Kid is tracked as a high-flyer on WrestleRanks. WrestleRanks standings are decided one week at a time, from fan voting and editor input. Read more about how our rankings work, or see the live, interactive profile with weekly rank history and voting on the Starlight Kid ranking page.

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