Rare for a children’s show of its era, Doraemon does have several notable Ho Yay moments...
- The relationship of Dr.Peppler and Dr.Hartman takes the cake with the way Ginger described them. While the subtitles uses the term "loving sibling", The Japanese has Ginger using the idiom "like the moon and a snapping turtle". The idiom both mocks her grandfather's genius and has the double meaning of implying he is "not being (a) suitable (lover) for him".
- The way Nobita and Hachi are portrayed in the merchandise, both of them looking in each other's eyes in the sky, can give some vibes. Also, consider that Hachi's back story as Ichi who waited for Nobita for a millennia (decades actually, but that’s just as heart-wrenching) until near the end of his life, before he chose to cross the time to reunite with him and regressed back to child can be read as a lover waiting for their special someone that never came.
- In Doraemon: Nobita and the Spiral City, the Sower decided to tease Nobita by transforming into Shizuka. And there is the fact that he chose the boy form because he feels that Nobita is "comfortable with this form most".
- In fact, talking about the movies; if the Main Guest Character in those stories is a boy, it is guaranteed that he will develop a deep bond with Nobita, such relationship almost always crosses into this trope.
- The remake of 'Birth of Japan' adds many scenes between Nobita and Kukuru; particularly they ride together on Pega, while in the Original it was Shizuka who travelled with Nobita.
- In "Nobita's Son Ran Away From Home" Suneo remarks "I LOVE strong guys!" in a rather affectionate manner to Nobisuke after he easily takes down Gian.
- In a Halloween episode
, Nobita kissed both Gian and Suneo on the lips. Suneo apparently liked the kiss and blushed. - In "45 Years Later... My Future Self Came To Visit", while everyone is cheering for Gian (who's about to bat) during a baseball game, Suneo is swooning over him and there's hearts floating around him.
- In "On That Day, Everything Turned Into Mice", Suneo suddenly kisses Doraemon on the mouth for no reason. Not even context will help in this case as he randomly does it.
- You'll catch Suneo getting cute in front of a male friend and bat his eyelashes to bribe him in a rather flirty manner. In fact that's exactly what happens in "The Mecha Maker" with Doraemon.
- In "Cold Bag", Doraemon and Nobita ask Gian if he has a cold, and the latter takes off his shirt to prove he's too strong to get sick. At this sight, Suneo is stunned and compliments him, for example in the Italian dub he calls him a "hunk" and in the Hindi dub he calls him a "macho-man".
- Suneo similarly compliments Gian when he's showing off his muscles in "Muscular Body Clays"
- In "Counseling Note", Suneo meets a boy, Tamatsu, during a holiday and at a certain point they blush. Both make up lies about their lives to impress each other.
- In "Nobita's Buried Treasure", Nobita and Doraemon travel 400 years back in time and meet a princess and a land lord who look just like Gian and Suneo, and Doraemon comments that they make a great couple. Once they return to the present, Nobita points out that Gian and Suneo make a great couple, too.
- In every adventure the main characters go on, be it a movie or an episode, you'll catch Suneo clinging to Gian's arm or hiding behind him for protection.
- Whenever Suneo gets wronged by someone, Gian will come to his rescue. In "Fellowship Badge", Suneo falsely accuses Nobita of breaking his new toy car, and Gian beats the latter up without even hearing his version first and says "whoever bothers Suneo, it's like they're bothering me".
- In "RC Source", when Nobita and Doraemon destroy Suneo's radio controlled aircraft, the first thing that comes to his mind is run crying to Gian, asking the latter to avenge him. Although this whole thing had nothing to do with Gian, he decides to beat Nobita up for Suneo.
- Gian is willing to fight multiple older guys at once to prevent them from hurting Suneo, as seen in "Mind Reading Helmet" and "The Horrors Of Gian's Birthday".
- In "Friendship Chocolate", Nobita offers Suneo chocolate (which makes anyone who takes it behave and think like the person who gave it to them). The latter assumes Nobita is in love with him and blushes. In reality Nobita was just trying to take revenge on Gian.
- Usually it's the fanbase who makes a ship name up, but in "The Making Of A Television Channel", Suneo and Gian refer to themselves as "Jaisune".
- In "Gian & Suneo, A Miraculous Duet!", Suneo is forced by Gian into taking part in a singing competition with him, and he's upset because his singing is horrible. Towards the end, even though Suneo has a chance of getting out of this (because Gian is busy with deliveries and won't finish on time for the contest), he acknowledges how important this is to Gian and decides to help him out so they can get to the contest on time.
- In "Big Problem! Suneo's Test Paper", Suneo daydreams about Nobita and Gian praising his intelligence and asking him to give them private lessons, all with a hearts background.
- And then there's the rather popular Dekisugi/Nobita combo.
- Despite Nobita recurrently claiming that he hates Dekisugi's guts, he always makes continuous remarks on his good traits, particularly his looks, during his rants. Often calling him handsome or similar in his attempt to make a point. And when he's truly friendly towards him, those are the times when he selflessly helps him or they genuinely bond over some shared interests.
- Dekisugi has shown an almost infinite amount of patience towards Nobita's antics, hates when others bully him and even comes to his aid/defense. In fact, picking on Nobita was what made Dekisugi be at his angriest moment, culminating in him yelling at Gian. Being the only character who has shown a continuous belief that Nobita could be a better person or develop skills on his own also helps.
- Episodes like 'The Rocket Straw', 'Uradoraman' and 'Gian's Dinner Show'; show that they make a good team when they aim for the same goal; it being making a rocket, filming a movie or attempting to sabotage said show, respectively. The first two drastically tone down Nobita's hatred even when Shizuka is also there, while the latter also features a rather cute celebration when that event gets cancelled.
- 'Dorami's Crisis in the Jurassic Period' shows that Nobita cares about Dekisugi. Nobita asks Dorami to take them to see real dinosaurs when Dekisugi feels down after being mocked by Gian and Suneo for being limited to dinosaurs in Museums while they have seen real ones. While being chased by a wild dinosaur, Dekisugi trips and Nobita comes back to help him instead of keeping on running away.
- 'The Perfect Love Letter' features Dekisugi being captivated by Nobita's writing skills, in reality he used a gadget. They team up and manage to recover said letter from Gian and Suneo. And ends with Dekisugi wanting to emulate Nobita at everything, asking to be his disciple and finally dropping the formality, in Japanese he starts using First-Name Basis.
- And 'Worries about 7 Years in the Future' defines Nobita's feelings towards Dekisugi as a case of Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them, ending with him summating that he wouldn't want Dekisugi moving out.
- In both 'Little Star Wars' and 'Diary on the Creation of the World'; Nobita goes to ask Dekisugi first, for help to make a movie and about the topic of his summer homework, respectively.
