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.

Redo of Healer

“Healing magicians cannot fight alone” – or can they?

Resident Alien

A crash-landed alien takes on the identity of a small-town Colorado doctor and slowly begins to wrestle with the moral dilemma of his secret mission on Earth.

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Airdates: 2021 - 2025

Reverse 4 You ดาวบริวาร

One sister foretells the future, and the other controls time. When a promised love seems doomed to tragedy, the pair sets out to change fate itself.

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Airdates: 2024

Revolutionary Girl Utena

Sometimes finding your prince means finding you are your own prince.

Network:
Airdates: 1997

Revue Starlight

Starlight is a song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world.

Riddle Story of Devil

Tokaku Azuma is a heartless teenage assassin on a mission of death. She’s been sent to a prestigious, all-girls boarding school to compete in an assassination game against eleven other beautiful killers. The heinous mission: send the innocent and cheerful Haru Ichinose to an early grave.

Riverdale

A subversive take on Archie and his friends, exploring small town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2023

Rome & Juliet

Girl meets Girl, and it all goes downhill from there. Like it does.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Rosario + Vampire

A boy inadvertently enrolls in a boarding school for monsters.

Network:
Airdates: 2008

Runaways

Six teenagers from different backgrounds unite against a common enemy — their criminal parents.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2020

Sabagebu!

Taking place at Aogiri Academy, the series follows a group of female high school students and their daily lives in a survival game club.

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Airdates: 2014

Sacred Lies

A teenager with no hands is suspected of knowing who killed her cult’s leader and lands in juvenile detention.

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Airdates: 2018 - 2020