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.

Magical Girl Ore

Saki must protect her crush, Mohiro, from being kidnapped by demons with the help of her best friend Sakuyo.

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Airdates: 2018

Magical Girl Raising Project

A video game can make people really magic.

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Airdates: 2016

Maid

After fleeing an abusive relationship, a young mother finds a job cleaning houses as she fights to provide for her child and build them a better future.

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Airdates: 2021

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