Ho Yay / Love Live!

For intentional examples based on official material, see here.

Love Live has massive Homoerotic Subtext but sometimes, the Shipping Goggles are too tight.

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Voice Actresses

Actor Shipping is common in the series as a result of the massive Homoerotic Subtext from the characters that spills over to their voice actresses.

• A NicoMaki moment adlibbed by their voice actresses, Pile and Sora Tokui.
• Nozomi x Eli has become so popular that their voice actresses are also shipped together in an identical manner. It doesn't help that they have natural chemistry together and play up their closeness for the fans, to the point of them crossing their fingers on whether Nanjo and Kusuda will eventually marry to each other after a ton of teases. Even after Love Live!, Kusuda Aina and Nanjou Yoshino have kept in touch.
  • Kussun was the surprise guest for NanjoIno's birthday back in 2017.
  • NanjoIno even wrote a song for one of Kussun's mini-albums titled "YOU AND AI".
• One of the live stages had Yurika Kubo and Riho Iida covering their close eye contact to each other with a fan. This also made the audience imply that they actually kissed.

Other

• Apart from the main characters, several of their mothers like Principal Minami, Honoka's and/or Maki's moms are shipped to each other as well.^note Principal Minami and Maki's mother is the most notable ship due to their previous connection.

Anthology Manga

The Anthology manga chapters, being an official collection of fanon works, feature a number of daring, somewhat straightforward Ho Yay moments with little-to-no subtext that is not entirely featured in the official stories. Note that comic anthologies (of any series) are never considered canon unless creators themselves say so. The product listings for the anthologies usually contain a line saying "different artists draw their own interpretations", which is basically a disclaimer. Read at your own discretion.

• Love Live! Anthology 1:
  • We Tried to Think Seriously About Our Onstage Costumes by Ayakawa Riku: When Umi is asked to wear a baggy mascot outfit, Honoka joins her inside the suit to create the perfect shape. As both are practicing on how to move inside the costume, they accidentally bump into Nico when she enters the club room. Given how Honoka and Umi are in the suit while falling over Nico, god knows what they did inside after they lost balance.
  • Lip☆Lecture 1, 2, 3! by Mizudama: Nico decides to buy Maki's missing Lip Balm...which the packaging obviously calls out that you could kiss someone once you applied it.
    • Nico teases Maki by getting close to her by acting in her "serious mode"...and then Honoka, Rin and Hanayo popped out of nowhere, scaring the two just to tell Maki that they found her lip balm.
  • Disorder by Kazehana Chiruo (aka Bisaid): Maki does the Nico Nico Nii to cheer Nico up.
• Love Live! Anthology 2:
  • The second chapter submitted by Norio Tsukudani (author of Himegoto), titled "Nico's Favourite, Maki-chan", and it's filled, (seriously filled) with NicoMaki yuri. Maki even plays a piano music dedicated to her.
• Love Live! Comic Anthology µ's Sweet Memories:
  • My Santa by Ripo Day: Once Maki found out that Santa isn't real thanks to Nico, Nico decided to comfort her by becoming Maki's "Santa".
  • The Person You Seek Shall Arrive: The chapter consists of Nozomi and Eli's childhood.