In the last 18 months or so I've gone through 100 volumes of Detective Conan, and it's uniformly wonderful with nothing woke. It's unabashedly Japanese, with wonderful forays into the country's culture and history. There are female characters, but they're all largely normal. A few 'strong ones' appear, but only via a sort of mythical organization, so it doesn't really hurt the story.
Most people my age entered Japanime via 'Akira'... and then nothing else appeared until the internet, so then I went through Parasyte, HunterX, FMA etc and loved a lot of it. But Conan is really something special.
It's a bit hokey. It's not going to change your life.
But for our resident reader -- Smith1980 -- it's just a wonderful way to relax and forget the world.
Anyway, for anybody 25+ that just wants to forget the world for a bit; to recapture that sense of what it meant for boys to love girls; to reimagine spy games with weird gadgets; and to completely forget faggotry...
Conan's the thing.
(it's all available... nyaa....)
Ran is a walking asura. Her osaka counterpart is also pretty strong
I think the only completely useless females are the young classmate of Conans and Rans good friend
Ran is a karate prodigy, but it really only comes up at the very end of a mystery when the villain tries to escape and she kicks him. It's basically played for laughs.
She's fought off like whole gangs of criminals before, notably when the villain of the case showed up with them to kill the witnesses.
I wonder if this is a difference between anime/manga? I've only read the manga, and so anything superhuman about Ran is about 1-2 panels. I guess that in the anime they have to extend the fight scenes.
I've also only read the manga but there was a case where the criminal had changed his face, showed up with a whole gang to kill the criminals and ran just plowed through them with sonokos bf iirc. Bodies were literally flying through the air