Akka Sakka

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Akka Sakka as seen from space.

Akka Sakka is the 36th stage station planet on the Galaxy Highway, best known for the whole planet being an amusement park. There are four separate entrances – for regular daily pass, annual pass, reservations and premium pass, as well as a backdoor entry for those who have more than 10k followers on social media. The amusement park is vastly popular – the waiting time for a regular daily pass is shown to be 300 minutes, later increasing to 500.

Love and Hope Fantasy Musical Area.

Akka Sakka puts a very strong emphasis on positivity – not only all of the names for locations, events and items are overly developed with several words seemingly randomly thrown together, but also all complaining, abusive language and negative comments are forbidden. Official guidelines do not say what happens when someone breaks this rule, but as can be seen on a quickly cleaned up dropped empty tin, it can be deducted that anything dirty, be it garbage of people, it immediately disposed of and gone with no trace. Any sort of negativity is immediately met with furious glares from the closest staff members.

Heart-shaped eclipse caused by the planetoids orbiting Akka Sakka during the Lovely Star Night.

Akka Sakkans have flowers as their main theme when it comes to appearance – whether it’s their real appearance, or a work uniform, is not clear. They all have some sort of a flower on the top of their heads, as well as leaves instead of ears. In addition, all have big, sparkling eyes, and appear to be either female or androgynous. Moreover, it seems most Akka Sakkans look identical – only few individuals with distinct appearances were shown, with the vast majority looking exactly the same.

A group of aliens native to Akka Sakka.

Akka Sakka’s amusement park similarly has a clear flower theme and, due to its size, is divided into several areas, including Love and Hope Fantasy Musical Area (which greets the arriving guests) and Fairy Tale Flower Lovely Play Area (with various rides typical for amusement parks, such as teacups, rollercoaster and a drop tower called Lovely Flower Treasure Box).
Once per year, there is an event called the Lovely Star Night, during which an astronomical phenomenon occurs – the planetoids orbiting Akka Sakka overlap in the sky, forming a heart-shaped eclipse. It is said that those who ring the Lovely Bell when this happens will be bound for eternity. Lovely King and Lovely Queen are chosen from the crowd to ring the bell at the culmination point of the accompanying event called the Akka Sakka Lovely Fantastic Fairytale Dream Parade.
This planet was visited in episode 7.

Trivia[edit]

Akka Sakka is named after Akasaka, which was also a station of the original Tōkaidō (located in modern-day Toyokawa, not to be mistaken for Tokyo’s Akasaka), however likely parodies the Hanayashiki amusement park in Asakusa.