While Word of God has shot down the possibility of any romance on the series, with a cast full of female witches and outright ship tease between Akko and several peers, there's no doubt about it having Les Yay relationships.
For more obvious Ship Tease, see this page.
- While Akko and Diana started off antagonistic towards each other, they slowly developed a close and caring friendship with each other over the course of the series, which has resulted in several moments of slight Les yay and teasing between the two.
- After walking towards each other, Akko and Diana are shown to briefly hold hands in the second opening.
- Episodes 19 and 20 heavily focused on Akko and Diana starting with Akko going out her of her way to convince Diana to come back to the school. The two even get close enough that their noses touch when Akko is convincing Diana to try to be both the head of her family and attend Luna Nova; this exact still would subsequently be used for the back cover of the relevant Blu-ray volume.
- In The Nonsensical Witch and the Country of Fairies light novel (Which takes place in the TV series continuity), Akko describes Diana in this fashion.
Akko: Diana Cavendish. She's a girl in my class with fluffy, wavy hair. Some people say she's the best student in all of Luna Nova's history. On top of that, she's really pretty, super-smart and from a very distinguished family. Basically, she's perfect. - Seeing as Chariot and Croix's relationship serves as a narrative Foil to Akko and Diana's, it's no surprise that the two women have no shortage of subtext between them, with many of their interactions coming off as ex-lovers:
- They were best friends in the past who worked together to find six of the seven words before their falling out, which in itself is rather reminiscent of a bad breakup. Such glimpses of their past shown include Chariot performing her Samhain Festival routine for Croix alone at night under the stars, Croix comforting Chariot through her failures and giving her what would become her famous "a believing heart is your magic" catchphrase, and at one point, Chariot cries into Croix's shoulder while they share an intimate hug.
- Just after claiming she wants nothing more than to ruin her last hope for her dream, Croix loses her cool for the first time when Chariot nearly falls to her death at Wagandea and saves her life by frantically calling out to her. The event seems to shake her up badly enough that she ceases interfering with Chariot's attempts to save Akko for the rest of the episode.
- Chariot puts herself at significant risk of death and injury to protect Croix from her out-of-control cube monster, especially given that she's unable to use magic at the time. Croix, initially fearful of dying to her creation, promptly demonstrates that she'd much prefer that outcome than have Chariot put herself in harm's way for her sake, and practically begs Chariot to leave and save herself. Chariot, of course, refuses, and they spend much of the scene calling out to each other in anguish. It culminates in Chariot shoving Croix out of the way and being eaten by the monster in her stead, something that leaves the latter in a state of devastated horror.
- Finally, when about to separate in the epilogue, they have a rather emotional farewell, in which Croix promises to return with a cure to Wagandea's pollen, and Chariot calls out that she will wait for her.
- A couple Blu-ray covers get in a bit of yay. For example, Vol. 7 shows Diana picking out clothes from her closet for Akko, while Vol. 8 has Croix and Chariot cozied up together underneath a tree.
- Episode 14 featured Hannah and Barbara taking a shower together. In addition, they seem to always hold each other's hands and cling to one another.
- While not official, some of the artwork by the animators does occasionally tend to lean towards this. This art
◊ of Diana and Akko by Shori Miyazaki and one of Amanda and Akko by Takafumi Hori being two such examples.
