hanahaki

Etymology
From, from +. An invention of Matsuda Naoko for her manga Hanahaki Otome (『花吐き乙女』).

Noun

 * 1)  A fictional illness in which a person bearing an unrequited love coughs up flower petals until they die or their feelings are reciprocated. The disease can also be cured by a surgical procedure that removes the flowers, but this will result in them losing their feelings of affection and all memories of the person they loved.
 * 2) * 2020, Katharine Elizabeth McCain, "Today Your Barista Is: Genre Characteristics in The Coffee Shop Alternate Universe", dissertation submitted to Ohio State University, page 27:
 * It is familiar. In that most everyone is familiar with a coffee shop and thus understands the AU’s basic premise on sight. Unlike, say, Hanahaki fics.
 * 1) * 2020, Ivy Wong, "The Cure for Hanahaki", English Literary Magazine (St. Paul's Co-Educational College, Hong Kong), page 22:
 * However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.
 * However, to a hanahaki patient, it's probably far more terrifying for them to have the surgery to cure their feelings than the disease.