Riyu Kikuchi

Story
An ardent wrestling fan, Kikuchi joins New Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling via the rookie tryouts during Mighty Yukiko's deployment in Mexico. This means that the first time Kikuchi meets Yukiko is when the latter returns from Mexico with the IWWF Junior Champion title, whereupon Yukiko instantly becomes Kikuchi's most respected senior and rolemodel.

In order to make Yukiko proud of her, Kikuchi devotes herself to her training in contrast to her lazy peer Hitomi Fujishima, whose frequent absences often leaves Kikuchi without a training partner, much to her annoyance. On the other hand, she finds a good training partner and friendly rival in Hikaru Ogawa.

When Yukiko raises her Revolutionary Army, Kikuchi joins with utmost joy and enthusiasm.She subsequently travels with Yukiko to compete in Mexico and America. While in Mexico, she tries a masked stint under the alias La Perfecta.

During Yukiko's leadership of New Japan, Kikuchi wins the IWWF Junior Champion title, thus successfully following in Yukiko's footsteps. During the JWI fiasco, Kikuchi of course chooses to stay with New Japan and support Yukiko, as well as attempting to persuade as many others as possible (especially the younger members) to do the same.

Eventually Kikuchi loses her IWWF Junior Champion title to the rising Chigusa Yuki.

Not long after, Kikuchi is forced to retire due to neck erosion. She has been ignoring it for a while, but following a last match where she is defeated by Harumi Ogami, she announces her retirement in a memorable speech in which she talks about how the rise of new talent such as Harumi makes her feel secure enough to cease competing herself. Kikuchi gets married and opens a wrestling school in Los Angeles. Her notable transfer students include Katori Kimura, Hiyoko Kusanagi and Sonia Inagaki.

Personality
Kikuchi is very upbeat, and her greatest contribution is her ability to raise the morale of the whole team with her perseverance and fighting spirit (marked by her white headband). She looks up to Yukiko in every aspect of life.

She is the shortest member of New Japan. Her small size gives her considerable speed in the ring to set up her elaborate aerial game, on which she relies to compensate for her poor throwing and striking abilities. Specializing in surprise attacks, she is willing to do all kinds of high-risk and even suicidal moves (which might be a cause of her health problems).