History HoYay / LittleBusters

[[caption-width-right:300:Wow, that girl is definitely the cutest! Wait...[[DudeLooksLikeALady isn't that the protagonist?]]]]

* Riki admits on several occasions that he romantically loves Kyousuke, such as the scene in the visual novel where Kyousuke ask him if he has anyone he likes. This goes beyond just the crazy reactions of the fans, Riki is confirmed to be gay for Kyousuke. All other homo teasing are just for jokes but these two are serious.

* First of all, the truly incredible amount of ho yay between Riki and Kyousuke. Riki looks up to Kyousuke a huge amount, to the point of describing him mentally in almost poetic terms worthy of a lovestruck {{shoujo}} heroine - in one of the first scenes, he says he totally understands why people come from across the school to watch Kyousuke (in the anime, why ''girls'' come to watch him), and that when he reads manga he looks 'divine'. But it goes further - Riki constantly thinks about the time he and Kyousuke first met and Kyousuke took his hand as being the pivotal moment of his life, as Kyousuke was the one who saved him from depression after his parents died and then introduced him to the others. Kyousuke isn't immune, either - he clearly cares for Riki more than almost anything as well, and is constantly doting on him, to the point where if you choose to tell Kyousuke you don't want to go shopping with him one time he becomes quite upset and asks if you suddenly hate him, and if you say yes, he leaves, totally miserable. [[spoiler:And as we can see in Refrain, goes through a ''hell of a lot'', up to and including sacrificing his life, to protect Riki and Rin and make sure they'll be okay.]]

* Riki admits on several occasions that he romantically loves Kyousuke, such as the scene in the visual novel where Kyousuke ask him if he has anyone he likes. This goes beyond just the crazy reactions of the fans, Riki is confirmed to be gay for Kyousuke. All other homo teasing are just for jokes but these two are serious.

** Even the supplementary material gets in on it. In one official manga, when Kyousuke is happily praising Riki, Rin tells the two of them to stop flirting. In Zen's End of Refrain manga, we get to see Riki's extremely flustered, [[CrushBlush extremely blushy]] response to Kyousuke's out of the blue declaration of 'I love you'. (It was a code. Sort of.) And in the drama CD, closest to canon of them all, we get the boys changing together and Kyousuke complimenting Riki on how much he's, um, ''grown''.

Ho Yay in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters''

[[caption-width-right:300:Wow, that girl is definitely the cutest! Wait...isn't that the protagonist?]]

Ho Yay in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters!''

* In the end, with all this plus the HoYayShipping between [[BaraGenre Bara]] [[LGBTFanbase Bait]] Masato and Kengo, and other les yay ships between the girls such as Haruka and Kurugaya, and assorted random comments such as Haruka joking that she's in love with Rin after Rin says something nice to her or Komari being worried that she wouldn't be able to get a wife or Mio being a YuriFan, Little Busters is quite possible the queerest bishoujo dating sim game ''ever.''

* In the end, with all this plus the HoYayShipping between [[BaraGenre Bara]] [[LGBTFanbase Bait]] Masato and Kengo, and other les yay ships between the girls such as Haruka and Kurugaya, and assorted random comments such as Haruka joking that she's in love with Rin after Rin says something nice to her or Komari being worried that she wouldn't be able to get a wife or Mio being a YuriFangirl, Little Busters is quite possible the queerest bishoujo dating sim game ''ever.''

* First of all, the truly incredible amount of ho yay between Riki and Kyousuke. Riki looks up to Kyousuke a huge amount, to the point of describing him mentally in almost poetic terms worthy of a lovestruck {{shoujo}} heroine - in one of the first scenes, he says he totally understands why people come from across the school to watch Kyousuke (in the anime, why ''girls'' come to watch him), and that when he reads manga he looks 'divine'. But it goes further - Riki constantly thinks about the time he and Kyousuke first met and Kyousuke took his hand as being the pivotal moment of his life, as Kyousuke was the one who saved him from depression after his parents died and then introduced him to the others. Kyousuke isn't immune, either - he clearly cares for Riki more than almost anything as well, and is constantly doting on him, to the point where if you choose to tell Kyousuke you don't want to go shopping with him one time he becomes quite upset and asks if you suddenly hate him, and if you say yes, he leaves, totally miserable.

** Even overall Riki and Kyousuke's relationship is incredibly important to the plotline, and arguably just as much so as the Riki and Rin relationship. Major parts of Rin's route and Refrain revolve around how they interact with one another, always with great intensity of feeling, and one of the most dramatic, climactic moments in the series occurs when [[spoiler:Riki and Kyousuke have to say goodbye forever, and scream at one another that they like each other and want to spend the rest of their life together while sobbing.]]

** The other characters comment on it, too - Kengo can give Riki the nicknames 'Loves Kyousuke' or 'In a love triangle between Masato and Kyousuke' or 'Unofficial chairman of the Kyousuke fan club', while he can give Kyousuke 'Unofficial chairman of the Riki fanclub'. When they first meet, Kurugaya wonders if he's gay, and then comments "The line between friendship and gay relationship is drawn in the water, is it not?" And then there's Mio, the game's resident YaoiFangirl, often noticing the slashy moments between them and outright [[ShipperOnBoard shipping them together]]. And Kyousuke himself can give Riki the title 'People you wouldn't mind sharing an IndirectKiss with GP 2007 Champ'.
** And then there's the touchiness - holding hands is a major theme in Little Busters, explicitly referring to the time when he and Kyousuke first met, and it almost always occurs between these two. In one such scene, Riki wakes up after having fallen asleep during his narcolepsy to find Kyousuke waiting for him, speaking softly and bathed in the orange light of the sunset, and when Kyousuke tells him everything's fine and takes his hand, Riki thinks that 'at that point, his hand felt like the most reliable thing in the world'. In later playthroughs, Kyousuke's role is replaced, with only minimal changes, with Rin, the main girl. And yes, the game is very much aware of the HoYay here, given that [[YaoiFangirl Mio]] commented once that Kyousuke probably took Riki's hand a lot as a child and when Riki confirms it Mio sighs happily. And then there's that random time Kyousuke tickled under Riki's chin like a cat out of nowhere...

** But all of this, and more, is still topped by one other scene where Riki is asked ''point blank'' whether he has a crush on Kyousuke and he admits mentally that he does, but that he can't tell him because he's sure their friendship will collapse. And then a whole scene erupts with Kyousuke saying ambiguously romantic/sexual things and Riki getting very, very flustered. At this point, it doesn't even feel like subtext anymore.