Ikoku Irokoi Romantan

"Romantic" my ass.

Plot and story:
This short anime is about Ranmaru who recently got married. He ends up drinking on their wedding day and, obviously, becomes drunk. The captain then takes advantage of Ranmaru's drunk state and leads him to a room on the ship where he rapes Ranmaru. Yes. Rape. Non-consensual sexual activities.
Even if it had been with consent, there is no love story or romance. Not even friendship. The captain clearly has no interest in Ranmaru's personality or life and only wants to bang him, which is far from being romantic in my opinion.

Characters:
The captain is a disgrace to Italians, even though ... he's just a fictional character. He's clearly not interested in forming any sort of relationship with Ranmaru. Considering how he has no sense of moral, personal space or respect, I'm sure this isn't the first time he has done this either.
As for Ranmaru, there isn't much to his character. While watching the anime, I couldn't relate to this character, his personality was flat and by the end, we don't know much about him other than about his marriage. Overall, he wasn't an interesting character.

Design and art:
The only plus for this forsaken anime. Ranmaru looks handsome, which is probably the only reason why Captain Rape wanted him.

Ending:
I think I've already made my opinion about this anime as clear as possible.
But at least the horrifying experience was short (Thank God for that).

Overall:
This is just another anime that proves Japan can't create a proper yaoi and/or shounen ai anime.
It completely skips the most important thing in a love story and jumps directly to the bed scene, as if that is what romance is all about.
Before I watched this anime, I was expecting drama, romance and angst. Three typical things in forbidden love stories, which is what the anime was supposed to be. Did the anime have any of these things? No.

As a hopeless romantic person, I want to see actual romance. Seeing two guys in a bed will never impress me. The love needs to be pure and the bond between the characters needs to be strong and well developed. This anime had neither of these things and failed to convince me that these two main characters love each other, which means the anime has failed to show and work with its main genre - romance.
Such a disappointment.
I recommend skipping this anime. Read a fanction or a doujinshi about your favorite pairing instead.

The reason why l gave the story a 4 is because there is no story. OMFG the whole thing is just basically sex. He gets married to a woman he doesn't love but bangs someone else not to mention the fact that he's MARRIED. Also, what was going on with Al???? Wasn't the first time rape? After the whole cruise thing, it is revealed that Al is the captain of the ship. Very convenient isn't it??? He just so happens to be in control of the ship. He waited until the main character (I can't even remember his name anymore) was drunk like wtf?????? Also, ... why was there a random getting lost scene?? Because it so happens that while he was walking down the road he came across Al. How convenient was that? Then proceeded sex again. Again the denial thing about not accepting Al's feelings which causes him to leave. Its like the main character can't do anything except depend on Al like what kind of character is this? Also, l love how his character is like macho since he is the head of the mafia and stuff but he acts the complete opposite. The kidnapping scene was even more of a disappointment. I ended up skipping the whole thing but from what l could tell at the end was that he got saved by Al and then sex! As for the ambiguous ending about staying together or some shit like that. Did he forget he was married???? Isn't this basically cheating???
The art was mediocre and the background just looked like blobs of colour. Not to mention the fact that all the other side characters were there to make Al look good. Infact the only person who had a personality that was somewhat real was probably the main character because Al was creepy as hell and l bet he didn't even like him. He just wants sex so how is that romance?!?!?! Was there even any sound because l don't remember that at all. MY God l hope no one watches this. Only recommended for those who are bored as hell and have nothing to do in their lives.