We're talking about Old World riffs on the romance and tawdriness of the ring. Much is made of the romance of the circus atmosphere, of flying through the air on a trapeze etc. Summary: The story takes place in a circus in Paris in the 1970's. ♥ Coponicus no Kokyuu by Nakamura Asumiko. Yuuji suddenly finds himself the sole target of a lost race that turns into dinosaurs, an extremely scary woman with a Goddess-Complex, the yakuza, a mad scientist and one 17 year-old boy who really, really, really wants to sleep with him. Mediocre, that is, until a juvenile mass murder suspect jumps out from under Yuuji's bed, declaring him his "mate." Before Yuuji has time to argue, the stranger transforms into a 16 foot-tall dinosaur and beheads his roommate. So when his boss at the medical lab volunteers him for some experimental drug therapy, how can he possibly refuse? All's mediocre for Yuuji: master of the pathetic.
He's more comfortable sewing than fighting, he faints at the sight of blood, and his fiancee is tougher than he is. Summary: 27 year-old Ayukawa Yuuji has never been much of a man. Having fallen in love at first sight, Yuka struggles to attract Gotou's attention, but Gotou restrains him with an, "I have no interest in kids."
However, he learns that the handsome neighbor is his math teacher. Summary: First-year high school student Yuka happens to see his amazingly handsome neighbor kissing another man.