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** Side N of the Sound Stage released by Seven Arcs as part of the promotion for ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha the Movie First]]'' reinforce the Happy Yuri Family with a large amount of its tracks dedicated to Nanoha, Fate and Vivio's family life together as the "Takamachi Family" (also see in the name of one of the tracks, "Takamachi Family Gathering", where Nanoha take care of Fate and Vivio, and share some happy family time together). In the prologue of this same Soundstage, Vivio say she is Nanoha and Fate's child.

** For Nanoha and Yuuno ship-teasing: In the first season, Yuuno was very jealous of how friendly Nanoha was towards Chrono when they first started working with him (especially whenever Nanoha got Chrono to blush). The two of them also bond over discussing their lonely early childhoods, and they promise to have more talks like that in the future, when there's nothing going on to worry about. During the final battle against Precia, when Nanoha and Yuuno work together to take out the power plant and its robotic defenders, Nanoha comments on how much she relies on Yuuno's warm support, punctuating her words with a positively ''sultry'', half-lidded look that, coming from an older girl, could only have meant "You don't know it yet, but you're MINE." In the time-skipped epilogue of the second anime season, Amy asks Yuuno if he's "made progress" with Nanoha. Even Fate notes that Nanoha and Yuuno "share a special relationship we can't understand" in a Sound stage.

*** In the supplementary manga issue that recaps and expands the second season's epilogue, Yuuno's answer to Amy's question about romantic progress is dramatically revised. Instead of responding with an embarrassed negative, Yuuno cheerfully says he and Nanoha are nothing more than childhood friends. Even then, the manga throws some support in for Yuunoha when Amy sadly classifies this as a symptom of their mutual workaholicism; she resolves to "have a talk" with them about it.

** Subaru and Teana are teased almost as much as Nanoha and Fate, with Subaru being ''very'' affectionate both physically and verbally, to the point of outright stating she loves Teana (which ''could'' be a case of [[Love You and Everybody]]) and groping Teana's breasts while she's sleeping, and Teana being a classic [[Tsundere]] model, complete with [[Fiery Redhead|red hair]] and [[Girlish Pigtails|twin tails]] (though she removed the latter after the second [[Time Skip]]).

** Buried amongst all of the yuri [[Ship Tease]] is the straight [[Puppy Love]] Tease of Erio and Caro. The Sound Stage cranks it [[Up to Eleven]] with Caro actually following Erio into the men's side of a public bath to [[Bathtub Bonding|do some bonding]] -- even suggesting that they take more baths together in the future -- much to Erio's sputtered embarrassment.

** Alucard and Integra have scores of [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]], complete with his [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|weird flirting]], her [[Tsundere|tsuntsun rages]], and the whole Count/Countess thing. And the [[Distant Finale]] chapter.

** The anime contains far more teasing than the manga. The 1st episode is set up as a gothic romance style [[Boy Meets Ghoul|girl meets vampire]] and they fall in love type of story, but it gets subverted ''hard'' when we Integra at the end of the episode and there is clearly [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|something]] going on between them, based on the bitter and jealous expression she has and the smug smile on his face, while Seras gets ignored. Gonzo, the producers, even said that Alucard/Integra were an [[Official Couple]].

** In one storyline, Nabiki becomes Ranma's fiance because of one of Akane's bouts of jealousy. Nabiki spends the storyline exploiting Ranma mercilessly, [[The Vamp|teasing him to keep him in line]], while trying to persuade Akane to take Ranma back -- [[Honest John's Dealership|for a token fee]].

** Then there's the "[[Together Umbrella|Umbrella of Love]]" chapter with Nabiki and Kuno. A similar pairing happened in the anime, but with a mistaken fortune telling.

*** Some people consider the OAV opening theme "Where Do We Go From Here (You and Me)" to also [[Ship Tease]] Nabiki and Kuno, as Kuno appears in almost every scene that Nabiki does.

*** This story line is actually in the Manga, so it was once again Takahashi who was poking fun at people in her classical style.

*** The anime version also has some Kuno/Nabiki [[Ship Tease]]...if you consider Nabiki dragging the unconscious Kuno through the cave and at one point using him as a human shield against a lantern ghost to be a sign of affection.

*** Takahashi punctures this one all the time, but perhaps most so in the final storyline wherein Mousse frees Shampoo from enslavement and sacrifices his chances to get her devoted to him, and she immediately glomps Ranma and doesn't even care that he's there the following panel.

*** The 2nd movie is also the biggest source of [[Ship Tease]] in the anime for Ukyo/Ryoga and Nabiki/Kuno. One of the reasons it's so generally disliked even amidst the fans of the anime (besides the fact it more or less recycles the plot of the first and the presence of [[Gainaxing]]) is because of this.

* ''[[Lucky Star]]'' mines a similarly rich seam with Konata and Kagami: the official artwork appearing in Japanese [[Target Audience|bishoujo-centric]] publication ''Megami'' depicts them as being ''very'' close friends. Come to think, a good portion of [[Yuri Fan|yuri ship fuel]] debuted in the same magazine.

** One loose series had them apparently get married and go on a honeymoon...{{spoiler|but the last installment is shown to be just [[Yuri Fan|Hiyori]]'s imagination, [[Epileptic Trees|raising the question of whether the previous installments were too]].}}

** Both the Bug Arc and the Land of Vegetables Arc in the Fillers had a fair share of Naruto and Hinata tease. In the Bug Arc we had Naruto watching the silhouette of a naked dancing Hinata and calling her beautiful, though he didn't know it was her. A lot of the Naruto/Hinata ship tease in the anime is definitely because a lot in the Naruto animation staff are Hinata fans. They even state this outright in the Shippuden episode 165 omake.

*** The manga has one memorable occurence in chapters 558-559, {{spoiler|where Naruto saves her from the Zetsu clones. There are also other subtle cues, such as Hinata being the only one to instantly realize that he really is Naruto and not a Zetsu clone, and Naruto noticing her desire to protect him by looking into her eyes and cheering her up for it.}}

*** And in chapter 573: {{spoiler|Hinata says that she will stop chasing Naruto... because when the war is over she ''will be next to him holding his hand and walking with him''. And to wait for her.}}

*** And how Naruto {{spoiler|went into Kyuubi mode after he saw Hinata seemingly get stabbed and killed in front of him}}.

** Then we have Jiraiya and Tsunade. Their last scene together makes it even more evident.

** Sasuke and Naruto have a fair bit of [[Ho Yay]] [[Ship Tease]] together.

** Exactly why we ended up with ''Tomoyo After''.

** And, inevitably, Kyou's OVA.

* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' series: Haruhi's feelings for Kyon are rather obvious, to [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|everyone but Kyon]] (who can't stop ranting and snarking about her), and Kyon's crush on Mikuru is hilariously explicit. The crush actually ''is'' returned by Mikuru, with occasional flirting between the two, but you know how the time travel-rules are...The teasing comes in with Yuki ({{spoiler|to the point of blatancy in the fourth novel/theatrical film where she temporarily [[Become a Real Boy|becomes a "real" girl]]...''for Kyon''}}) and [[Ambiguously Gay|Itsuki]], who may just be doing it to mess with Kyon, aka Mr. [[Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?]]. If the 5th novel is anything to go by, Mikuru's feelings for ''Haruhi'' and Koizumi's statements on how charming Haruhi is and that he "envies" Kyon. And let's include the return of {{spoiler|Ryoko Asakura}} in ''Disappearance''. One has to ask himself ''why'' she, despite being a normal human, {{spoiler|[[Psycho Lesbian|stabbed Kyon to protect Yuki]].}}

** Kyon implies in one of the novels that he has dreams about alternate Yuki on a regular basis.

** [[Minori Chihara]], Yuki's voice actor, apparently also likes to tease for Kyon/Yuki, if [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W01R_3G1N3g this is any indication]; notice that she replaced the last word of the [http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/haruhi/yukimuonmadobe.htm lyrics] from {{spoiler|"believe me(shinjite)"}} to {{spoiler|"i love you(daisuki)"}}.

** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ROGoxKRQo Focus]", one of Takeru's [[Image Song|image songs]], wherein he sings about someone that he's known since he was small and who he wants to protect -- even mentioning that "[http://www.animelyrics.com/anime/digi02/focus.htm you used to cry all the time, but now you're standing in the light]". Yeah, real subtle. He even wonders if he is the focus of that person's heart.

*** Conversely however, Hikari has an [[Image Song]] on the Girl's Festival album about a childhood friend she has fond memories of and perhaps a crush until one line near the end - "[http://www.megchan.com/lyrics2/digimon/reflection_e.html It's a little too cute to call it love]", suggesting that any supposed romantic implications from her were just old feelings about a childhood friend. [[Ship Sinking|Ouch.]] Then again, even that fact won't make the above any less teasing to shippers.

*** Interestingly, they still tease Tai/Sora ''after'' she starts dating Matt. Something that comes up a lot is Sora dodging behind Taichi when startled (when Matt is the same exact distance away) in Diaboromon Strikes Back. Also, something worth pointing out is that the finale deliberately ''avoids'' declaring Matt and Sora to be married; clearly each is the parent of the other's child, but ''still''; she's remains closer to ''Joe''.

** Daisuke and Ken have moments of both [[Foe Yay]] and [[Ho Yay]] in ''02''. Including the Kaiser getting a little too excited by having Daisuke crawling like a worm for him, as well as that their hearts beat together when their Digimon first Jogressed. Yes, they even have a [[Sleep Cute]] moment.

*** Renamon and Impmon get teased as well, starting from their very first meeting, when he called her a "Digibabe" and "toots". Then you have their whole love-hate relationship, Renamon recognizing him as Beelzemon when no one else could, and her being the one who wanted to go back for him while the Tamers were preparing to leave the Digital World. And then there's the whole "bond" thing they have...

* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', there's quite a bunch of teases about the Hakkai/Yaone pairing. Whenever the group fights, they get pitted together, they're counterparts to each other, and most importantly, Yaone herself looked like Hakkai's deceased lover Kanan. Lots of shipping generate from these, but eventually it gets featured less and less for the sake of [[Ho Yay]], probably the ship has sunk already...

** The anime writers loaded Diamond/Pearl from beginning to end with Ship Tease for Ash and Dawn, and later put in some Ash/Iris Ship Tease right in the ''third episode''. These latter day pairings don't seem to catch on as much as earlier ones [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|for some reason]]...

** And then they just ''have'' to complicate matters by giving the party members ship teases with others. To wit: Tracey for Misty, [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|Zoey]] and [[Childhood Friend Romance|Kenny]] for Dawn, and [[Opposites Attract|Cilan]] for Iris (''[[Camp|and]]'' Ash himself). To say [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|nothing]] of [[Suck My Rose|Drew]] for May. In turn, Tracey, Drew, and Cilan get alternate teases of ''their'' own.

** On the other side, Jessie and James are a total shiptease. Especially in [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/H012 the ''Pokémon Chronicles'' episode ''Training Daze''] where [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v405/Heracross/Team%20Rocket/Rocketshipping.jpg James falls awkwardly on top of Jessie and makes her blush].

** For the longest time, the Pokemon ''[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|themselves]]'' seemed to be mainly immune from this trope, with most exceptions being with Ash as previously mentioned. ''Then'', Dawn caught a Buneary which happened to fancy Ash's Pikachu. This was followed with her Piplup getting his own set of [[Girl of the Week|crushes]]<ref>[[Interspecies Romance|including one on Dawn herself]], ''and'' having not even [[Casanova Wannabe|Brock's]] success rate with them</ref>, before going on the ''Best Wishes'', where there have been more "Crushes of the Week" for the Pokemon than for Ash or Iris.

*** The [[Gaiden Game]], ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'', might also reference this inter-continuity teasing via Eagun, an [[Old Master]] who started off with a Pikachu, and his granddaughter Rui, who bears a rather striking resemblence to Misty.

** Last but not least, the games themselves have been showing an increasing amount of [[Ship Tease]] material ever since Generation III, although most of it is ''very'' small and subtle compared to the examples from the anime and manga due to the more limited characterisation. For more information, read its entry in the Video Games subsection.

* Tezuka and Fuji got this in both the manga and anime of ''[[Prince of Tennis]]''. Most notable were a couple of flashback episodes of the anime in which they held hands, walked under an umbrella together (usually reserved for lovers in anime/manga) and had [[Cherry Blossoms]] rain down onto them.

* The infamous "cigarette kiss" at the end of the 7th episode of ''[[Black Lagoon]]''.

** The Tokyo arc also plays out like one massive Revy/Rock ship tease, with Revy bringing our the dere-dere (what counts as [[More Dakka|that]] [[Heroic Sociopath|for]] [[Dark Action Girl|her]], anyway), jealousy, intense protectiveness, and caring about someone else's mental (or physical) health for what amounts to the first time in the series. Really, any time these two are on screen/in the same panel together counts. Their UST is just that high.

* Every '''freaking''' [[Les Yay|scene]] in ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' between Lucia and Sumire. Especially in the first few volumes.

** {{spoiler|Her grandfather}} asks Roy what he is waiting for to marry Riza, and he nearly answers "everything in due time."

** He learned flame alchemy by {{spoiler|seeing her [[Toplessness From the Back|topless]]}}.

** The ending picture of the manga/Brotherhood is the biggest ship tease in the series. ({{spoiler|Did Al and May hook up at the end?}}) Looks like the world may truly never know the truth.

** The third art book does at least contain the official answer for one of the almost couples. {{spoiler|Roy and Riza are not a pairing at the end of the series... well, not out loud. Arakawa confirms in her comments on one art piece that the only reason they aren't married is because the military has an anti-fraternization law, and to get married they would have to stop working together. Since Riza is fairly crucial to Roy's plans to become Fuhrer, they can't give up the working relationship; but the implication is pretty clear that once he reaches the top (which Arakawa has confirmed elsewhere he will), they'll be together.}}

** Several scenes from the manga that make Orihime's feelings for Ichigo significantly more obvious than it is in the anime are never adapted or are changed significantly (for example, a [[Not So Different]] moment in Chapter 24 is replaced with Orihime saying her epigraph poem from Volume 3, a scene with Orihime's brother complaining about Orihime always talking about Ichigo is changed to her always talking about her friend Tatsuki, and a scene showing the strength of her resolve to go with Ichigo to Soul Society to protect him is cut entirely and the anime has her hesitating whether or not to go); some of Ichigo's lines, such as "If you want to kill Inoue, you'll have to kill me first!" are also cut; moreover, Orihime and her feelings for Ichigo are all but ignored in the filler stories and movies.

** On the other hand, despite shortening a small subplot in which people at school are spreading rumors about Ichigo being in a relationship with Rukia, there are [[Adaptation Expansion|additional]] [[Ship Tease]] scenes between the two, along with scenes in which characters can be jealous of Rukia for being close to Ichigo (Ririn, Nel). In the anime's version of the Grand Fisher mini-arc an original character whose job would have been taking Rukia back to Soul Society leaves her in the human world because "I don't want to break up such a serious twosome" and "I guess Rukia has come of age..." Episode 342, in particular, is one long Ichigo/Rukia tease.

** HitsuMatsu. The anime seems to favor Rangiku and Toshiro a great deal (and now with Gin out of the way...), judging from the facts that they're always together, trust each other the most, the movie The Diamond Dust Rebellion has so much chemistry between them you can cut it with a knife, they shared a few touching [[Friendship Moment]] and in the 9th- 10th season openings when the Captain/Lieutenant combos are introduced the camera seems to linger more on them than any other.

** The animators and Tite ''really'' pushed UlquiHime after the Arrancar said Orihime looked good in the Arrancar wear. In-character or not, it was out of the blue for Ulquiorra to state such a thing.

** Played up for laughs, but Sanji and Zoro get a lot of [[Ship Tease]] scenes in the fillers, from sleeping with their faces ''right'' next to each other to nearly kissing twice.

** During the manga's month-long hiatus, Oda drew a few doodles containing information about himself. To celebrate the birth of his new daughter, he drew a scene of Luffy holding up a baby...with Nami's hairdo and with Nami herself standing right next to him, looking pleased as punch. [[Oh Crap|Uh]] [[Internet Backlash|oh.]]

** A good deal of ship-tease fuel is canon. Franky/Robin, Zoro/Robin, Sanji/Nami, and Luffy/Nami get their more potent fuel from canon materials, though a lot of it is probably misinterpretation of [[The Power of Friendship]]

*** Before the full crew was assembled, Nami/Zoro was somewhat prevalent, due to Nami and Zoro being the two most mature members of the crew and had the [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] (Nami was a [[Tsundere]] and Zoro was a bit of a [[Jerkass]]).

**** The manga recently had a bit of shiptease with Robin and ''Jinbe.''

** There's also the worst case of ship tease is Hancock with Luffy, who constantly takes what Luffy's saying to mean something else after his ridiculous display of MANLY and falling in love with him. A love so strong she thought it was a lethal fever at first. Luffy is Luffy, he's ridiculously oblivious about it, despite the fact she acts like a doting housewife to him because her sexiness won't woo him, despite her being the hottest woman in the world of One Piece's world according to in series men and women alike.

*** Somewhat subverted when Luffy blatantly tells Hancock that he won't marry her.

** The [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] moment with Hachi and Camie.

** And then there's ''[[Tsubasa]]''...[[Mind Screw|*sob*]] But putting that aside, let's see: [[Official Couple|Sakura/]][[Toy Ship|Shaoran]], Sakura/Yukito, [[Ho Yay|Yukito/]][[Shotacon|Shaoran]], [[Brother-Sister Incest|Touya/]][[Big Brother Instinct|Sakura]], [[Official Couple|Touya/]][[Yaoi Guys|Yukito]], [[Unlucky Childhood Friend|Meiling/]][[Childhood Marriage Promise|Shaoran]], [[Les Yay|Sakura/Tomoyo]], [[Les Yay|Meiling/Tomoyo]], Tomoyo/Touya (due to a mistake on the part of one of CLAMP's artists, hilariously), [[Les Yay|Sakura/]][[Hot for Student|Mizuki-sensei]], [[Hot for Teacher|Touya/Mizuki-sensei]], [[Older Than They Look|Mizuki-sensei/Eriol]], [[Hot for Student|Terada-sensei/]]Rika (they're and [[Official Couple]] in [[Canon]], and portrayed as completely wholesome, much to many fans' [[Squick]]), [[Ho Yay|Yue/Clow]], [[Toy Ship|Yamazaki/Chiharu]] ([[Macekre|"cousins",]] [[Sailor Moon|eh?]]), Nakuru/Touya, etc. And that's not even getting into some of the bizarre/obscure ones; the Mirror card quite obviously has a crush on Touya, for example, and he can always tell when she pretends to be Sakura but doesn't get upset at her for it.

* In ''[[Gundam Wing]]'', Relena and Heero technically still count as this, although it's a given by now that they will be together in a romantic way at some point in their lives.

** Trowa and Quatre are a more traditional version of this trope. It began in the original series, starting with their first meeting, including pointed use of the theme song as they 'surrender' to each other, and a spontaneous flute-and-violin duet an episode later as Trowa's Gundam is repaired. It continues with matching [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] 's that bookend at least five episodes worth of pining on Quatre's side, and ending with a suspicious sort of mind-link between the two culminating in Trowa semi-rescuing Quatre after he was stabbed by Dorothy. The manga Battlefield of Pacifists only lays the hints on even more thick, and in Frozen Teardrop, they are still very close, do not have any children, and their expy's Quatrine and Trowa Phobos are also being ''[[Ship Tease]]''d.

** In both the anime and the manga, L is ship teased with Misa. L touches her butt, claims to be a big fan of Misa, declares that he could fall in love with Misa, and tells Light he is jealous of him for having such a fine girlfriend. Plus, he {{spoiler|puts her in incredibly perverted-looking bondage restraints}}. On Misa's side, she calls L "cute" and "funny" and seems to enjoy him when they first meet, and later she kisses him and declares him a friend. Then {{spoiler|when she discovers "Ryuzaki" is actually L and reads Light's letter ordering L's death, she plans to kill him without a single guilty thought, and gives up half her lifespan for that chance to kill.}}

* Filia and Xellos from ''[[The Slayers]]'' would have ''classic'' [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]...if weren't for the fact that's he's a Mazoku who feeds on negative emotions and shouldn't have the ability to love. That's not going to stop the shippers, especially considering ''Slayers Try'' is filled with moments that were obviously intended to ''look'' shippy, even if that is canonically impossible. The two most obvious moments would have to be when Xellos rescues Filia by picking her up in his arms (and then...drops her on top of the bad guy) and later when he's injured and she helps him, which results in them spending almost an episode practically cuddling.

** The hints between [[Genki Girl|Amelia]] and [[The Spock|Zelgadis]] are played straighter; this generally fleshes out during more dangerous situations. The second season, ''Slayers NEXT'', solidified this when Gaav, one of the two [[Disc One Final Boss|Disc One Final Bosses]] severely wounds Zelgadis when he protects Amelia from his blade; and later on, {{spoiler|Hellmaster Phibrizzo [[Disney Death|outright kills]] Amelia to anger Lina, and Zelgadis [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|nearly loses it.]]}} Unlike [[Bodyguard Crush|Lina and Gourry]], though, the teasing kept going through the anime's run.

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': Erza used to shower with Gray and Natsu and cares a lot for them, but is made out to have romantic feelings for Jellal that might be returned. In fact the two get the only kiss of the series before Jellal decides to try (and fail) to sink their ship for the sake of their happiness. Juvia had a stalker crush on Gray which eventually evolved to the point where something may or may not be going on between them, and views Lucy as her rival in love. Speaking of Lucy, in addition to her little one sided bit with Juvia, she collects pinnups of Mirajane, has admitted to having a girl crush on Erza, and has developed a crush on Natsu in an omake when she thought he may have liked him. Natsu should probably move on, since the girl it's heavily implied he had a thing for died two years ago, {{spoiler|or not, now that she's back.}} There's also Loke, who loves to tell Lucy that the power of his love for her is what gives him the ability to protect her. There's also the little bit with Sherry and Lyon, which was about as subtle as Juvia's crush on Gray-or the equally hilarious crush Lyon develops for Juvia-before Sherry developed another relationship with Ren. Sherry's crushes are no where near as cute on the one Levy harbors for Gajeel, though it's up to the fans whether he protects her to fit in to the guild better or out of actual feelings. Although the feelings Bisca and Alzack have for each other are actually confirmed, they [[Cannot Spit It Out]] in order to confess to one another (until the time skip, that is) and something is definitely going on between Cana and Macao. The [[Fairy Tail]] manga contains a ''lot'' of [[Ship Tease]], in every possible direction. The anime adaptation takes all of that, and then adds EVEN MORE.

** As for Keiichi/Mion, there's a whole bunch of it, most noticeably in the Watanagashi-hen arc and in Minagoroshi-hen when {{spoiler|Keiichi finally gives that doll to her, complete with her blushing and Keiichi telling her about how he thinks she really is girl like despite being a tomboy.}} And then there's Miotsukushi-hen which is just packed with Mion/Keiichi ship tease...

** Higurashi Kira has a whole episode devoted to ship teasing Keiichi/Mion, Keiichi/Shion, and Keiichi/Rena. The fact that the ending didn't have a romanic resolution and heavily implied Keiichi/Mion didn't help, either.

** Or Lelouch and Nunnally both saying "aishiteru" to each other on two separate occasions.

** Hinagiku seems to be the only girl who Hayate hasn't seen partly nude (excepting the OAV). She's probably the one who's given the most fanservice though. Hayate is commonly the reason.

** Recently, a lot of teasing for the previously one-sided Nagi/Hayate has been going on. Multiple comparisons of her similarities to Hayate's first love, Athena; the extremely spoiled and pampered Nagi {{spoiler|throwing away her entire inheritance so as to free Hayate of a [[Sadistic Choice]]}}; Athena admitting how happy Hayate seems with her {{spoiler|and ultimately pulling an [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]] so he stays with Nagi}}; and the end of Chapter 265 with Hayate wondering {{spoiler|if a day will come where he can say "I truly love you" to someone once more while both his and Nagi's smiling faces are framed}}. Although, {{spoiler|she follows him to Japan anyways.}}. It seems that, like [[Ken Akamatsu]], Kenjirou Hata is absolutely relentless with the [[Ship Tease]].

* In ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', either Fuu and Jin, or Fuu and Mugen, or both, depending on your point of view, neither of which actually materialize, to the utter disappointment of fans.

** A guy (namely Crow) bringing a girl (namely Aki) a cup of coffee in an episode is innocuous. A guy bringing a girl a cup of coffee during ''the trailer for the episode'' is Ship Tease, especially when followed by a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] on the villains who put her in a coma. However things plays out in the future, the reactions will be as interesting to watch as the show.

** Sora/...[[Harem Genre|Well, I think you get the idea]].

* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' AKA ''Sgt. Frog'' has Giroro and Natsumi. If you ship it, you will be tortured.

* In ''[[Element Hunters]]'', not only is there ship teasing between two pairs of characters, one of the pairs is continually commented on by another of the characters.

** While that pair is firmly within [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]], the other practically shouts about it while she's standing in front of him.

** [[Ho Yay|Shinji and Kaworu]] have an absurd amount of this considering the latter's brief appearance. CPR, standing naked right in front of the other in the shower, declarations of love, sleeping in the same bed, handholding while taking a bath together, the sleep over, the blushing...

* In the [[Serious Business|fishing]] anime ''[[Grander Musashi]] RV'', most of the [[Ship Tease]] revolved around Musashi's childhood friend Mio. She seemed to get jealous when another girl showed interest in Musashi, and she sings the ending theme with only Musashi being the other character featured during the song. One of the antagonists, who later pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]], also develops a crush on her and Mio gets some [[Ship Tease]] moments with him too when she becomes his friend. Musashi's male childhood friend, Suguru, also develops a crush on a girl named BB. She's initially dismissive, but later episodes hinted at the beginnings of romantic reciprocation from her. [[No Hugging, No Kissing|No relationship in the series gets beyond teasing, though]].

* ''[[Noein]]'' easily fits this, with [[Emo Teen|Yuu]] and [[MacGuffin Girl|Haruka]] doing such things as holding hands and promising to run away to Tokyo together. Ai and [[Oblivious to Love|Isami]] fit this also, with the former having an obvious crush.

** Episode 2 has Chie and Yosuke share a hug. She then knees him in the groin.

** Episodes 9 and 10 have a lot of moments that would make Narukami/Rise fans [[Squee]] with joy.

** Episode 15 features some between Yu and Chie.

*** Episode 19 teases this one a lot. Kanji begs Naoto to 'make him a man'. He also gets a nosebleed at the thought of seeing Naoto in a bathing suit, even with Naoto's refusal to come out from behind the curtain [[Serious Business|(complete with Kanji getting so excited they show the animation usually reserved for summoning Personae)]]. Earlier in the episode, during the group date, he describes his ideal partner as mysterious, with a strong facade. Now who might that be?

*** Episode 20 also has Kanji blushing and acting awkward and Kanji-ish when Naoto mentions the pageant. Later when Kanji hops into bed with whom he assumes is Chie, Yosuke wonders out loud why he didn't seek Naoto out.

** Also, in that same episode, after Daisuke destroys or subdues a common enemy, Daisuke and Clair gaze at each other for awhile. And that's it for this pairing. Later on [[Ship Sinking]] ensues as Daisuke {{spoiler|not only winds up with Kyoko as the hero usually does, but goes off on an adventure in some distant land...alone.}}

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has a lot of [[Ship Tease]] of both the heterosexual variety (mostly between Tsuna and Kyoko, Chrome and Tsuna, and Chrome and Mukuro) and the [[Ho Yay]] variety (mostly between Tsuna and his male [[Unwanted Harem|guardians/friends]] ).

* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'' features quite a bit of [[Ship Tease]] between [[Mind Game Ship|Neuro and Yako]], especially in chapter 201.

** As well as ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]''.

** And in ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' mostly with [[Ho Yay|Gon and Killua]]. And Hisoka likes to ship himself with [[Depraved Bisexual|anyone]].

* In ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' Oz gets shippy moments with everyone.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had much heterosexual and [[Les Yay]] [[Ship Tease]]. And [[Ho Yay]] [[Ship Tease]].

* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is ''laced'' with ship tease for Alto x Ranka, Alto x Sheryl, or Alto x [[Cargo Ship|his plane/the sky]]. There's some mild ship teasing between some members of the rest of the cast as well, and someone probably used a couple shots to suggest [[Les Yay|Sheryl x Ranka]].

** In episode 10, {{spoiler|Ringo apologizes to Shouma since he got injured for her sake}}, and she's later willing to {{spoiler|give up her half of her Destiny Diary if it means it can be used to save a kidnapped Shouma's life. And ultimately does so.}}

** Kanba/Himari has certainly gathered some following ever since the infamous kiss in episode 1. For [[Brother-Sister Incest|an incestuous match-up]], that's not bad.

** And now we have {{spoiler|Masako -> Kanba}}, in the form of {{spoiler|her Forceful Kiss on him. And reflected on how her penguin kisses Kanba's own too, leaving lipstick marks all over it.}} Episode 11 gives more fuel {{spoiler|when Masako and Kanba ''do'' talk about it, and she refes to herself as a "hunter for love" whose prey is Kanba.}}

* ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': The anime in particular seems to be hinting at the potential love interests of Akira. The anime seems to slide toward Keisuke/Akira though especially in Episode 9. Happens again in episode 11 {{spoiler|but the pairing has officially sunk.}}

* The creators of ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' have been teasing Kotetsu and Barnaby as being more than [[Heterosexual Life Partners]] with increasing frequency and intensity <ref>including one statement that, had they been a man and a woman, they would have fallen in love ''within the first episode''</ref>

* ''[[Marchen Awakens Romance]]'': [[Foe Yay|Phantom and Alviss]], Alviss has his moments with [[Ho Yay|Ginta]] especially in the anime and Ginta has his moments with Snow and Dorothy. The anime seems to aim for both Dorothy and Alviss though. Luckily at the end, he seems to revolve some things with Dorothy, Snow becomes Koyuki but unfortunately, he doesn’t solve anything with Alviss. Also, Dorothy and Nanashi. And Snow and Jack. And Chaton and Alan.

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has much heterosexual and [[Ho Yay]] [[Ship Tease]].

* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' has a lot. Some of the [[Ship Tease]] gets resolved, and some [[Ship Sinking|doesn't]].