 Her official AV debut was at age twenty in the video "Beautiful D-Cup Girl, Sister L", released in September 1985 by CineMagic.Kikuchi has been called the first adult video performer whose career was built around her exceptionally large breasts for that time in Japan.The Big Bust genre, or , which Kikuchi pioneered would be set "on fire" at the end of the 1980s with the debut of Kimiko Matsuzaka in 1989, and become established as a major genre of adult entertainment in Japan in the 1990s.