Literary Inspired TV Shows (
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Predominantly found in web series, TV shows with this trope are based on a pre-existing work. Like every single bloody Sherlock Holmes series ever made by network TV.

Maria Holic

Let’s just say that the quest for true love will not run straight in Maria Holic.

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Airdates: 2009 - 2011

Mayo Chiki!

When you’ve got acute gynophobia, even a pretty girl can be a malady.

Maze

Maze wakes up with amnesia in a zany fantasy world with fantastic superpowers, and one astronomical problem. When night falls, she transforms into a man!

Network:
Airdates: 1997

Merry Maidens

Merry Maidens is a modernized, gender-bent Robin Hood story.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Middlemarch: The Series

A modernized, gender-bent, vlog-style web series adaptation of “Middlemarch” by George Eliot

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Mikagura School Suite

A formerly reclusive gamer struggles to find her place at a school where the clubs battle it out.

Mina Murray’s Journal

In which we address the biggest fear of growing up. Bills. Or maybe vampires.

Network:
Airdates: 2016

Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou

A girlish boy moves to Tokyo to not be picked on.

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Airdates: 2018

Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid

When your maid is a dragon, at least it’ll never be too cold.

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Airdates: 2017

MM!

Can someone be cured of masochism? Let alone a student.

Network:
Airdates: 2010

Monogatari

This is a story, a “ghostory” of sorts, about scars that bond, monsters that haunt, and fakes that deceive.

Network:
Airdates: 2009 - 2014

More Tales of the City

A sequel to Tales of the City, based on the same novel.

Network:
Airdates: 1998