Īkira wrote a memoir titled Insatiable: Porn-A Love Story which was released in May 2014 by Grove Press. In June 2014, Akira appeared on a YouTube video with vlogger Caspar Lee. It is aimed at a young adult audience, with its goal being to help youth with their problems related to sexuality, career, relationships, etc. In 2013 Akira and artist David Choe started a podcast featuring 90-minute episodes called DVDASA.
She was also placed on CNBC's yearly list "The Dirty Dozen", the site's annual ranking of the adult industry's most popular and successful stars in 2012, 2013, and 2014. LA Weekly ranked her third on their list of "10 Innovative Porn Stars Who Could Be the Next Sasha Grey" in 2013. In 2011, Complex ranked Akira fourth on their list of "The Top 100 Hottest Porn Stars Right Now" and at sixth on their list of "The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time". The episode featured a recurring joke of people asking Peter "who was the girl on the couch" and Peter giving a deadpan reply that he is certain each inquirer already knows who she is.Īkira holding her 2012 XBIZ Award for Female Performer of the Year backstage at the award ceremony Akira later noted that, ironically, this was her first casting couch scene. In 2017, Akira appeared as herself in the first episode of the sixteenth season of Family Guy in a live-action casting couch cutaway scene with Peter Griffin.
In 2014, Akira featured as a guest in episode 1 of season 3 of the Eric Andre Show. In January 2014, Akira, Dana DeArmond, Chanel Preston, and Jessie Andrews were featured in a Cosmopolitan magazine article titled "4 Porn Stars on How They Stay Fit." The article was inspired by actress Gabrielle Union's comment made on Conan O'Brien's talk show about striving to follow the fitness routines of the porn stars she saw at her gym. Mainstream appearancesĪkira made a cameo appearance in the mainstream film Starlet. Her debut film as a contract performer for the company was Asa Is Wicked. On October 9, 2013, Akira announced that she signed an exclusive performing contract with Wicked Pictures. In 2013, she made her directorial debut with Elegant Angel's Gangbanged 6. She was also the most awarded person during that ceremony. She won the AVN Female Performer of the Year Award that night. Īkira co-hosted the 30th Annual AVN Awards alongside pornographic actress Jesse Jane and comedian April Macie. Īkira received several award nominations for her role in David Aaron Clark's 2009 film, Pure, in which she plays a telephonist at a fetish dungeon who has an affair with the head-mistress' husband.
Akira is of Japanese descent and is from New York she spent her formative years in Japan before moving back to the United States in her teens. Asa is her real first name, which means "morning" in Japanese, and the last name in her stage name was taken from the anime film Akira. She then signed a contract with Vouyer Media before becoming a freelancer six months later. Her first boy-girl scene was with Travis Knight for Gina Lynn Productions, after having already done several girl-girl scenes, mainly with Lynn. In 2006–2007 she was a regular on the Bubba the Love Sponge radio show and was known as the "Show Whore". She later worked as a stripper at the Hustler Club in New York. Akira began working as a dominatrix when she was 19 years old.
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