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.

Manaria Friends

A princess and honour student meets a princess who’s half dragon.

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Airdates: 2019

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 bakunetsu jikû

A young, shy, and soft-spoken girl with hidden powers, travels mysteriously through time and space into a fantasy world.

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Airdates: 1997

Merry Maidens

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

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Airdates: 2017

Middlemarch: The Series

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

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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.

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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.

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Airdates: 2010

Monogatari

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

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Airdates: 2009 - 2014