History PlayingWith / HanahakiDisease

* '''Exaggerated''': Bob has never had luck with ''any'' women. In his lungs, there's an entire ''garden'' of roses, cherry trees, daisies, lilies, violets, lobelias, dianthus, and more, all flowers that either his love interests liked or were named after.

* '''Inverted''': Bob coughs up cherry blossoms because Sakura loves him.

* '''Subverted''': It turns out Sakura ''does'' return Bob's feelings.

*'''Double Subverted''': But since she's married, there's not much that can be done about it, and Bob continues to cough up cherry blossoms.

* '''Zig-Zagged''': Some people who are rejected develop flowers in their lungs, others do not.

* '''Averted''': Bob never meets Sakura.

* '''Defied''': Sakura catches onto Bob's unspoken feelings, and steers him towards [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Alice]] before the disease takes hold.

* '''Played For Drama''': Bob becomes angry with Sakura, [[IfICantHaveYou and murders her]].

* '''Deconstructed''': Rather than being portrayed as tragic yet clean and beautiful, Bob's death is shown with all the horrifying and [[NauseaFuel disgusting]] detail that such a death would realistically have; the petals are covered in blood, vomit, and other bodily fluids while Bob's cough is agonizing and painful.

* '''Played For Horror''': See Deconstructed.

* '''Played For Horror''': See Deconstructed.

* '''Deconstructed''': Rather than being portrayed as tragic yet clean and beautiful, Bob's death is shown with all the horrifying and disgusting detail that such a death would realistically have; the petals are covered in blood, vomit, and other bodily fluids while Bob's cough is agonizing and painful.

** [[RapeAsDrama Bob rapes Sakura]] in hopes of curing his disease.

* '''Exaggerated''': [[HollywoodDateless Bob]] has never had luck with ''any'' women. In his lungs, there's an entire ''garden'' of roses, cherry trees, daisies, lilies, violets, lobelias, dianthus, and more, all flowers that either his love interests liked or were named after.

** A cherry tree bursts out of Bob's chest like that scene in ''Film/{{Alien}}''.

* '''Parodied''': A cherry tree bursts out of Bob's chest like that scene in ''Film/{{Alien}}''.

* '''Justified''': Unrequited love sucks.

** Bob has surgery to excise the cherry trees from his lungs, and forgets all about Sakura.

** The relief is short lived; he still has feelings for Sakura, and coughs up cherry blossoms, before eventually dying.

* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Played For Laughs''': Bob ''farts'' out flowers.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

** He still has feelings for Sakura, and coughs up cherry blossoms, before eventually dying.

** However Bob handles the rejection, it doesn't involve a mystical disease that causes him to cough up flowers.

** Bob accepts Sakura's rejection gracefully, and eventually gets into a relationship with Alice.

** Bob is able to handle being rejected gracefully.
** However messily Bob handles the rejection, it doesn't involve a mystical disease that causes him to cough up flowers.

* '''Exploited''': Bob guilts Sakura into going out with him (even though she doesn't want to) to cure his "illness."
* '''Defied''': Bob decides to get over himself and accept her rejection gracefully. He doesn't have to be ''thrilled'' that he can't have her, but he ''does'' have to accept it and move on.

* '''Invoked''': Bob has feelings for Sakura, who doesn't love him back.

** Bob coughs, but there are no flowers, and he's diagnosed with something else, such as penumonia or tuberculosis.

** It turns out Sakura ''does'' love him back, but by the time they realize this, Bob dies.

** As the disease progresses, the flowers appear.

** Bob has never even ''[[CannotSpeakToWomen spoken]]'' to Sakura, only admired her from afar. (Or, maybe ''not'' [[StalkerWithACrush so afar]].)