Well, yaoi (explicit) is different than Shounen-ai (implicit).
This is like the difference between text and subtext and the subtextual gayness is off the charts. It's almost as high as Hannibal and that endgame was Murder Husbands...I'm kind of getting a season 2 vibe of Hannibal in the gayness charts of subtext becoming text.
It just feels like this is more like a situation in which the creators are shipping and creating a relationship but the censors won't let allow them to be explicit so they are using subtext to the point of text to overcome that limitation.
I'm getting the same feeling here. That the author/mangaka is limited by censors and so they are using subtext and the other characters reactions to the ship to show the relationship.
Instead of a queerbaiting for the fanabiting but no homo situation.
Yaayyy Hannibal!! Some one else is watching this show.
the only explation i see is that the author is a fujishi. lol
I think so too. Hase is just too cute!!(≧∀≦)

I'm not just imagining it, am I? There is heavy shounen-ai shipping feels between Hase and Inaba.
I could buy them as close friends but the way others react to their friendship is like those of people who think two friends should hook up. Hase's own family seems to be subtlety wanting Inaba to join the family.
Then there is how Hase introduced himself to everyone at the apartment complex. He was acting like a young man courting the family and friends of his intended love.
Not to mention his comment about how Hase, Inaba, and Kuri look like a family with him as the papa and Inaba as the momma. There is the flirtation between the two of them, the heavy conversations of their life and each other, and numerous other things that happen between them. There is also the comments of those around them.
Everything is telling me that if Inaba was a girl then Hase would be her endgame boyfriend. so that means the author is shipping it too, right? So will they subtly hook up later in the series? Like a 'life long bachelor with a roommate' Victorian era setup?