This is a mobile game from Voltage. They’re a well-known company in Japan for producing popular games aimed at women. Early this year they ported 恋に落ちた海賊王 for the iPhone and Japanese, cellphone, and Android. They even translated the game into English; the official title in English is Pirates in Love. In this report I will be talking about the Japanese version. It’s not because it’s better than the English version. They’re the same – it’s just that the Japanese version has released more things like epilogues for each character and side stories so I believe you will want that. LOL I will stick with the Japanese names. The heroine’s in Voltage’s games never have a default name, you have to make one up, and so for convenience sake I’ll refer to her as Sayaka. LOL
The game starts with Sayaka preparing for work. She works at a bar and the owner hasn’t come by yet. A bunch of hooligans come by and make up a ruckus asking for beer. Sayaka tries to be polite and tells them that the bar opens in the evening. Since they don’t like that response they start messing with her and the bar but then it escalates when one of the thugs brings out a knife and Sayaka calls for help. Suddenly, a gunshot is fired and it hits one of the thugs in the arm. A guy with an eye patch and a gun comes into the bar and says it was noisy and tells the two guys and that they’re scum trying to get with a kid. Then he asks the thugs what’s so good about a shortie. *sigh* that really hurt…because I’m short in real life! orz (Anyway, the actual phrase is こんなチンチクリンの、どこがいいんだ) In the end Sayaka thought the same as me and marked they eye patch guy as a bad person. LOL Then suddenly another guy comes called Hayate who is younger, blonde, and carries double swords and complains “Shin, don’t leave me behind!” Then one of the thugs starts a fight with Hayate. Sayaka says that there’s no way Hayate can take them all on because it’s 10 against 2. However, Hayate ends up defeating them all. One of the thugs wonders who those 2 are. Then Shin asks if he wants to see and shoots at all the thugs knives. Then one of the guys remembers their faces and mentions that they’re from the Sirius crew. Shin grabs Sayaka’s arm and tells her to run away. Sayaka agrees and Shin is pleased with her response saying that she knows how to take orders. After Sayaka runs away the thugs chase after her. Sayaka manages to find an empty barrel and hides in it and waits for the thugs to go away. However, before she can leave someone tightens the lid and carries away. The way the person carries the barrel makes Sayaka hit head somewhere in the barrel and she gets knocked out. When Sayaka wakes up she tries to get up but the barrel has been sealed shut and she worries about being stuck in it for a long time. Fortunately for her someone actually opens the barrel and Sayaka takes the chance to get out. The first thing she sees is a cute red headed boy. Instead of asking who she is the boy freaks saying that Nagi-san and the others are going to get mad at because the beer turned into a woman. LOL Then a man with a bandana comes in asking the redhead, Towa why he’s taking so long and then looks at Sayaka and also gets surprised. Towa then apologizes to Nagi-san but then corrects himself saying it’s not his fault. LOL Sayaka begins apologizing but Nagi cuts her off asking how she snuck on the ship. Sayaka freaks out because she doesn’t know she’s on a ship. Sayaka then explains why she was in the barrel. Nagi then carries Sayaka out of the barrel and into the ship’s infirmary. Nagi asks the doctor to take care of Sayaka. The doctor makes a comment of how rare and cute the patient is.LOL Nagi explains that Sayaka bumped her head and the doctor examines it immediately. Sayaka flinches in pain at first but the doctor apologizes that he doesn’t deal with girls too often and pats her head gently. (By this time I was crying in my otome heart because all the other guys were so rough! Well, Towa didn’t do it purpose…) the doctor tells Sayaka not to worry and says that everything alright. When Sayaka explains her story to the doctor she starts to cry. The doctor gives Sayaka some ice for her bump and brings her on deck to get introduced to everyone. the swordsman, Hayate from before asks why there’s a woman on board. Sayaka remembers him and reminds him about what happened at the bar. Hayate leans in close to examine Sayaka’s face but can’t remember and asks if he’s Soushi-san’s woman. Nagi says that there’s no way that the doctor, Soushi, has a woman and asks if its Shin’s instead. Then Shin comes out and asks what they’re talking about. Sayaka remembers Shin and vice versa. Shin asks for her name and says he’ll remember it before he throws her into the sea and asks if she wants to be blind folded or not. Then Towa tells Shin not to do naughty things on the ship! Shin tells Towa he’s thinking about the wrong thing. OTL Then Sayaka demands to know where the ship is going. Hayate says it’s obvious that they’re looking for treasure and Nagi is surprised that Sayaka doesn’t know that she’s on board with the Sirius Pirates. Nagi complains and Hayate is also with Shin about throwing Sayaka overboard. (-_-#) Soushi intervenes and scolds them for scaring Sayaka. Shin says that Soushi is being too nice and offers to sell her at a dock instead. Sayaka tries getting a more reasonable option. This annoys Shin and says that he can leave Sayaka on an island or feed her to the seagulls. Then both Soushi AND Towa intervene; Soushi chides Shin for scaring Sayaka and Towa says there’s no need to make a big fuss since she’s not on the ship of her free will. Hayate protests that women aren’t allowed on pirate ships. Soushi scolds him if it would really be ok for him to feed Sayaka to sharks. Shin jokes wondering if sharks would be interested in her at all. Then huge laughter breaks the conversation and a man who appears to be the captain says that this is good entertainment underneath the moonlight. Captain Ryuuga decides to make Sayaka a member of Sirius right there. Naturally, everyone is surprised. LOL Ryuuga says the ship was reeking too much with male sweat. This causes both Hayate and Shin to shut up because they follow the captain’s orders but Shin is sad that he can’t tease her anymore. LOL Towa makes up for it cheering that they’ve gained a new comrade. Ryuuga tells Sayaka the three rules of Sirus: 1. Protect your comrades with your life. 2. Never let women or children be harmed. 3. Party till dawn when the moon is full. Ryuuga assures that all of the guys are nice to women but from what had transpired before it’s hard for Sayaka to believe (I don’t blame her at all either LOL.) There is a problem though the ship doesn’t have any spare rooms for her so she has to share one with another crew member. So…from here on out you get to choose a route

Thank you so much for this game’s review. I’m kinda.. blind in smartphone games. The story in it is kinda similar to one of manga I’ve read recently. Its titled is “Ao no Rhapsodia” by Ogura Akane. Things like barrel is used in it too. Just a one shot though. And yeah, I could imagine the guys would be rough because they’re pirates…
You’re welcome! That’s the main reason I started this blog…to spread the otome mobile love. LOL
You make me curious about that one shot now…lol
Even though the guys are rough…you know how fast it’ll take them to become deredere wwwwww
Oh yes. I can imagine they’re become dere and get the heroine go to their side. You can read the mangascan here: http://www.mangahere.com/manga/ao_no_rhapsodia/
And is it alright to add you to my blog list..?
Sure, you can add me!
I’m working on my blog roll right now so I will add you back. LOL
Ah, randomly came across this as I just finished the game (leave only Nagi for the last, but will start now xD) Yay for a review of Pirates in Love! I wanted to make a review of this game though, but… time is never on my side T^T
I got to say, aren’t the epilogue the same in both english and japanese? I have only played the English ver. and only the epilogue in Japanese, and I saw it was all the same o_O
So I’m curious what’s the side stories in the japanese ver?
(Anyway I’ll probably stalk you from now on, hope you don’t mind ~)
I believe all the stuff will be the same it’s just the epilogues and side stories haven’t been released in English yet. LOL
There’s also the 続編 (zokuhen) which is a continuation from the original story. I believe it might be the same length as the main story from looking at Japanese blogs…
What are those side stories about? After “marriage” or something like Starry Sky after stories? XD
Man, they should release them in English soon then. I bet it’s next year if they can. Since the Ryuuga’s and Towa’s story were just recently released.
It’s not after marriage. It’s a continuation more or less and everyone is smitten with the heroine LOL. They have adventures on different places and the outcomes are different depending on who you pair up with. LOL
Nice to see you posting here! I’ve added you my blogroll too.
I’m definitely not within the mobile gaming audience so it’s nice to see you writing about mobile otome games. Are they generally hmm similar in length to other console/PC otome games?
Ack, I was just planning to add in one last line, but forgot. ;;
Merry Christmas!
They’re actually shorter than console otome games. But I guess it depends on the company. In mobage it seems you can only go so far a day without spending their “in game” money.
I hope you have a Merry Christmas too~
Hi Hazuki. 8D
I hope you don’t mind me stalking you from now on, since most likely I will never play any mobile otome games. At least not anytime soon lol. The prologue for this game sounds really interesting, and from your tweets I can tell that you really liked the game. xD Will you be posting per individual routes?
Of course you can stalk me! LOL You know how long I’ve been stalking you LOL
I will be doing individual routes. It’s taking me longer than I expected… since each route is 16 chapters long. LOL But I get distracted easily.
Hi,did you play this game on iphone/ipod touch? And also,can I play this game on ipod touch with ios 5.0.1? Btw,I enjoying your writting,it’s hillarious lol xD.Thanks btw
I played this on a iTouch 4. You can play this game with the 5.0.1.
If you want to play the Japanese version you need to have wifi connection because all the new games need that too since they all show ads of the other games during saves. ^^;
hi,sorry for asking again ^ ^; did you have any problem when you save the CGs(from the gallery) ever since the newest update ? o.0; basically I try to get the CGs, and the pop up says successfully saved to my camera roll, but when I check my camera roll, the CGs are nowhere to found -.-; and this is happened to all voltage apps that I brought from u.s itunes store(pirate, SP, and the cinderella). but I can save the CGs from the wedding apps that I brought from japan itunes store 0_0. I already report this since yesterday, so I hope I can get response from them ^ ^;; sorry for a long comment ._.’
I haven’t tried saving pictures in a while. I tried it after I saw your reply and it doesn’t work for me either. The wedding one from the Japanese store works for me though. ^^;