″Different Talent Dual Talent″ Mana Sakura: “If I wasn’t an AV actress, I would never have written a novel.”

Conflicts as a Woman

She says, “Although porn stars are easily exposed to the eyes of people with malicious intent, we can ‘observe’ what people are thinking by being exposed to various kinds of words. Being able to convey reality through novels may be a ″life-extension″ for me to continue being an AV actress.”

She is an adult film actress and a novelist. The one and only concurrent writer, Mana Sakura (32), smiled bewitchingly.’ She started her gravure career in 2011 and made her AV debut the following year. She won six awards at the “SOD Awards 2012,” including the first ever Best Actress Award, and rose to the position of popular actress.

She calls herself a “ero-ya,” and has appeared in more than 200 films to date. In 2004, she released her first novel, “The Worst. was released in 2004, it was sold out at bookstores one after another. On February 12, her 10th book, “Anoko no Kawari” (Kawade Shobo Shinsha), was published, and her talent as a novelist has blossomed, including two nominations for the “Noma Bungei Shinjin Sho” (Noma Literary Newcomer Award). It depicts ″pregnancy and childbirth″. The main character Yura, a makeup artist, is swept up in a crazy feeling that she does not know what it is when her best friend Arina becomes pregnant.

Yura says, “When you work in porn, for better or worse, people ask you about marriage and children out of curiosity. ‘Isn’t it hard for an adult film star to have a baby?’ These are questions that I am not sure how to answer. These things combined to make me start to become more conscious of the fact that I was in my 20s, even if I didn’t want to, and in my 30s, people around me started to rush to have babies, and my friends encouraged me to “have a baby sooner if you want to,” making me even more aware of the “countdown to fertile age. I also adopted a shelter dog four years ago, which made me think more realistically about the difficulties of raising a child through ″pseudo parenting″. Of course, I am aware that humans and animals are different. However, the theme of pregnancy and childbirth has always been with me, even though in a different form, and it made me rethink the way I want to live my life in the future. Therefore, the main character’s struggles reflect my own struggles as much as possible. I don’t go off the rails as insanely as Yura does, though (laughs).

Determination to continue

Writing is an essential part of continuing to be an adult film actress. For Sakura, it is one of her irreplaceable activities.

My main occupation is being an AV actress, but this year marks the 10th anniversary since I started writing novels. More and more people say to me, ‘Both are your main job, aren’t they? But I still love being an adult film actress, and I consider it my absolute main profession. That desire to continue for a long time has not changed since my debut.”

The straightforward look in her eyes was imbued with a strong sense of determination.

While working in different genres at the same time, Sakura reveals that she draws a clear line in the sand when it comes to managing her schedule.

For the past 14 years, I’ve decided to release only one adult film a month, so I only shoot one or two days a month. I also appear at events related to my work, appear on variety shows, and commentate, and recently I have been called upon in many other situations where I am a combined AV actress and writer, but I still try to write every day. The amount I write changes daily because it is not a regular job, but when I had an interview with Akutagawa Prize-winning author Shinya Tanaka (53), I was deeply impressed when he said, “It is important to write a sentence or even a word every day. Since then, I have tried to write every day as much as possible, even if it is on my smartphone.

Behind his success lies steady effort and unwavering determination.

In the February 19 issue of “FRIDAY March 6” and the paid version of “FRIDAY GOLD,” he talks candidly about the “creativity” that his two-legged footsteps give birth to and his future prospects.

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From the March 6, 2026 issue of “FRIDAY