<figure id="attachment_458238" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-458238" style="width: 2188px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="753a86cc"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/02/5939dea13042c86a8870c6a6c6c09519.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-458238" class="wp-caption-text">Sakura Mana/&#8217;11 attracted attention with her gravure in &#8217;11, and this year marks the 15th year since her AV debut the following year.&#8217; In 2004, she also began her career as a novelist with her first novel, &#8220;Worst. Her 10th book, &#8220;Anoko no Kawari,&#8221; is now on sale to rave reviews!</figcaption></figure>
<h2> Conflicts as a Woman</h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> She says, &#8220;Although porn stars are easily exposed to the eyes of people with malicious intent, we can &#8216;observe&#8217; 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.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> She is an adult film actress and a novelist. The one and only concurrent writer, Mana Sakura (32), smiled bewitchingly.&#8217; She started her gravure career in 2011 and made her AV debut the following year. She won six awards at the &#8220;SOD Awards 2012,&#8221; including the first ever Best Actress Award, and rose to the position of popular actress.</p>
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<p> She calls herself a &#8220;ero-ya,&#8221; and has appeared in more than 200 films to date. In 2004, she released her first novel, &#8220;The Worst. was released in 2004, it was sold out at bookstores one after another. On February 12, her 10th book, &#8220;Anoko no Kawari&#8221; (Kawade Shobo Shinsha), was published, and her talent as a novelist has blossomed, including two nominations for the &#8220;Noma Bungei Shinjin Sho&#8221; (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.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Yura says, &#8220;When you work in porn, for better or worse, people ask you about marriage and children out of curiosity. &#8216;Isn&#8217;t it hard for an adult film star to have a baby?&#8217; 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&#8217;t want to, and in my 30s, people around me started to rush to have babies, and my friends encouraged me to &#8220;have a baby sooner if you want to,&#8221; making me even more aware of the &#8220;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&#8217;s struggles reflect my own struggles as much as possible. I don&#8217;t go off the rails as insanely as Yura does, though (laughs).</span></p>
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<h2>Determination to continue</h2>
<p> Writing is an essential part of continuing to be an adult film actress. For Sakura, it is one of her irreplaceable activities.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> 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, &#8216;Both are your main job, aren&#8217;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.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> The straightforward look in her eyes was imbued with a strong sense of determination.</p>
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<p> 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.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> For the past 14 years, I&#8217;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, &#8220;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.</span></p>
<p> Behind his success lies steady effort and unwavering determination.</p>
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<p> In the February 19 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY March 6&#8221; and the paid version of &#8220;FRIDAY GOLD,&#8221; he talks candidly about the &#8220;creativity&#8221; that his two-legged footsteps give birth to and his future prospects.</p>
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<p> For more details and multiple photos, click here↓.</p>
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<p> From the March 6, 2026 issue of &#8220;FRIDAY</p>
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 Takehiko Kohiyama

 Mana Sakura, an adult film actress and novelist, is a one-of-a-kind writer with a dual talent. She says, "Being able to convey reality through novels may be a way for me to prolong my life so that I can continue being an adult film actress.

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

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