Ran for character opinion bingo?
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Wasted Potential: The way Gosho invents this bright young woman who is like a world-class karate champion but 90% of the time she's reduced to The Mom/The Girlfriend stereotype is just flat out a crime. Give me more Ran during tournaments, give me more Ran outside her role as the sole caretaker of Conan and Kogoro, c'mon.
If they were real I would be afraid of them: Though I do mainly blame Gosho for this because it's a theme throughout the series - it's not just Ran, it's every character who is a professional martial artist. They just randomly attack people. Like, the first meeting between Sera-Ran? The first meeting between Sera-Makoto? The way they don't ask questions but rather wield their weaponized bodies against total strangers at the slightest provocation is absolutely unprofessional and terrifying.
Free space: I think that it's actually a crime that she has never gotten to interact with her MK counterpart before. The Nakamori-Kogoro shenanigans are always honestly so hilarious and the Kaito-Shinichi dynamic is something so personal for me but Aoko has not once interacted with Ran and that's a crime. We know from MK that Aoko attends the occasional heist to protest KID or to bring her father a meal, why can't she have a DC cameo too and they meet and talk while their fathers bicker. Why. Give it to me.
Nothing I like about them is technically canon: I mean, half-way. Like, I prefer my Ran as a lesbian whose worry for Shinichi is purely about her best friend or who had that realization through Sera and is now moving on to build a life of her own without constantly glancing at her phone in hopes he might have called.
Why do they look like that: The horn. I just. I don't understand. Why does she have a horn. No other character in this franchise has stupid anime hair styles like this only her, everyone else has normal hair. But she has some weird cone sticking outta her head like does she wake up and put a ton of hair-spray in to build that thing? How does it work? Why is it there? I don't understand.
They work better as part of a dynamic: When she is alone, she tends to be reduced to Sad Thoughts About Shinichi. But I prefer happy, carefree Ran, when she's with Sonoko and Sera or Kazuha, having fun with her friends. I also wish the show would give just the occasional non-Conan episode? Like, just an episode fully about the other Detective Boys, or about the police taking on another different case, or Ran and the girls having a day out. I think that at over 1000 episodes, you could. Just, one such episode every 100 episodes or so.