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....)
Don't discount the practice of platforming: specifically promoting authors that support your view without having to convince them of anything.
One piece is an example of this. Usopp is a jew: long nose, thick lips, olive skin, curly hair, loves money, cowardly. If any of these SJW's had any consistency they would call it a minstrel show.
I don't see what people enjoy in the except it's momentum. But it promoted the multicultural narrative when it started so it got promoted.
except the part that was defined by Eiichiro Oda himself in one of SBS's Usopp would be african when it comes to real-life ethnicities
tell me you're a tourist without telling me you're a tourist
Next you're going to tell me that a vampire child isn't a loli because she's 800 years old. He's obviously a stand in for a "noble jew". Everything about him is jewish except his loyalty.
There are a couple of philosophies I don't agree with in OP for sure. Pursuing freedom at any cost and letting people do what they want is pure 90s Liberalism. Buuut that's about it. It gets huge plusses from me for having a TON of manly loner characters, a la the Western/Samurai tropes that Oda likes inserting into a Pirate setting. You can't feminize settings like that. Rejection of modernity, also based. Embracing turbulent revolution vs gay peace, very nice.
The 90s Leftism I can handwave away for the Conservative aesthetics. It's like saying Rowling can make a secret society of racially elite superheros where everyone has a gun Left wing: She can't.
Subversion is a process. It doesn't skip straight to the goal. Japan is considerably behind the United States in this process, and One Piece also started in a different era. Understanding this context helps to compare it with other anime which were way less subversive.