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....)
Isn't that one of the longest running series in both Manga and Anime? I swear I see a new episode/chapter every week!
I think the Meritocracy barrier in Manga and Anime is still working to keep out the woke, the most I can say I've seen is there was one where in a magical setting, a guy had gender dismorphia so wanted to be a woman but that was solved in one page as...magic. The funniest thing was earlier the MC got gender bent and looked like his sister..who was a MASSIVE cunt that he'd try to kill on sight so everyone had to stop him trying to kill himself till it wore off.
The worst thing currently is CGI, there's still some abysmal CGI used that even look worse than PS1 graphics . That's Anime, Manga we still have the problem of author burnout.
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.