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* Dawn and Zoey's [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|relationship]] in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' is just tinged with romantic [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shipping:AppealShipping subtext], to the point in Zoey's first Japanese appearance many fans on a ''certain'' forum made jokes about her and Dawn.

** It doesn't help how hard [[Break the Cutie|Dawn]] took Zoey's words to heart.

*** To further compound this, a recent episode had a female Togepi's Attract working on Pikachu, meaning it's male, if Attract works the same way in the anime as it does in the games.

** Then there's Ash and Gary once it stops being [[Foe Yay]].

** Brock and Ash have their fair share as well. Particularly in the episode "Two Degrees of Separation" where in one instance Brock introduces Ash to a female driver named Claudina who he'd been hoping to score with. Interesting to note that in the entire time he's doing so he's being all touchy feely with Ash, hugging him close and poking and prodding at his face in a playful manner. Later, he finds out that Claudina already has a boyfriend and she drives away. Which leads to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGW2jT0iR5E=related this scene] from the English dubbed version.

** In the episode ''Love at First Flight'' May tricked Ash into dressing up as a woman they had just met, named Juliet, in order to help a man named Romeo confess the feelings that he had for Juliet. Brock tried to help out too and ended up getting carried away, even chasing poor Ash around and trying to hug him while declaring "My sweet Juliet! Heal me with your love!" * releases hearts*

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8QcM1l7EsM&feature=related This scene], where Seymour hugs Ash for saving him.

* ''[[Pokémon]]'' manga are not exempt from this trope. ''[[How I Became a Pokémon Card]]'' features one chapter with two boys who have a very close friendship and constantly blush around each other; it doesn't help that one of them is biologically [[Transsexualism|a girl]], and his friend didn't believe him in all his years he knew him. ''[[Pokémon Golden Boys]]'' has Gold and the [[Ambiguously Gay]] Bugsy.

* ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' has its fair share of [[Ho Yay]] moments. In the FRLG arc, fans have taken to pointing out that Green is Red's coathanger. Gold and Silver had some rich [[Foe Yay]] vibes in the GSC arc when they first met, and by the end of the arc has Silver tearing up a little when he thought that Gold was lost in the timestream. It culminates to the point that Gold blushes when Silver reveals that he was conscious when Gold called him his friend in the Emerald arc. Dia and Pearl [[Heterosexual Life Partners|need no explanation]], and their brief falling out in the middle of the arc can almost be taken to be a breakup.

* Red and Blue. Blue's description of having been your friend gone rival makes him sound [[Tsundere]] toward Red, you have [[Foe Yay]] for most of the original games, and once you go back to being friends he seems to think about him a lot.

* The ferris wheel dates in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' are full of [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] in the Japanese version. Two of the characters you can date are the opposite gender as the protagonist - Waitress Aurora for the female protagonist and Hiker Andy for the male. Andy comes off as a [[Hard Gay]] who constantly talks about the heat and asks you ''if you've ever had a lover'' (in context it sounds like he's seducing you). Aurora sounds like she's coming onto you, though the Japanese version has her talking about a boy. In the English version the [[Les Yay]] was upped due to lack of reference to the boy and in the French boy they made the boy into a Pokemon of hers.

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