Why Renga is canon.

fruity things from ep 1

So in episode 1 we obviously get introduced to the story, so nothing too gay happens, but I would like to talk about two scenes.
Langa's reaction to Reki's ollie, and Reki's reaction to Langa's beef with Shadow in particular.
At first glance these two scenes aren't very fruity, but later, as I will cover more scenes in the anime in next chapters, they'll make more sense, because some of the scenes become more important, when you put all of the gay moments together. (I will cover all of this later)

So first, Langa's reaction.
Just a quick reminder of what happens before: Langa is looking for a part time job, and runs into Reki on an accident, when he asks him to catch his skateboard. At first he doesn't even remember who the redhead is. Then Reki offers Langa to try to skate, which Langa fails to do. Then Reki ollies over him.
Then, when he turns around, this is Langa's reaction:

You could say "oh, he's just amaized by the ollie, not by Reki" but I'm here to remind that back then, Langa didn't knew that ollies are much harder in skateboarding than snowboarding, so he didn't knew it was something special, which makes me think he was actually amaized by Reki (in a romantic way, or idk how to call it). He is clearly blushing, which is really rare for Langa in the anime. Through the episodes, when Langa blushes it's only a few small pink lines, since he's so pale. And the blush only shows when he's excited or embarrassed. When it comes to Reki he has permanently those black lines, but when they add blush they're pink, that's how you know he's blushing

After that Reki shyly offers to pick a begginer board for him:

Again, it may seem there's nothing special about this scene, until we see a page from sk8 the infinity chill out comic:

If you look closely, Reki is also blushing in the recap scene where he asks Langa if he would like to pick out a begginer board together, while on the other panels he doesn't have that blush, which means the blush is intended. You may also say that I'm just overreacting, but like I said, we'll talk about the blushes more later.

Now for Reki's part, when he watches Langa win with Shadow:

It's worth mentioning how on an interview Hiroko said "In this moment I fell in love with Langa just like Reki did in this scene" (sorry if it isn't 100% exact sentence, but I just couldn't find the interview now).

So that's it for ep. 1 now.
See ya!