DCMK has really great female characters but it seems like the boys have all the fun

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Things I want out of Detective Conan/Magic Kaito fandom:

Aoko being awesome
Ran being awesome
Aoko and Ran teaming up and doing fabulous things together
Aoko and/or Ran teaming up with Kaitou Kid and kicking ass
Honest-to-goodness genderqueer Kaitou Kid
Heiji being a dork
Sonoko and Ran hanging out & having fun
The Adventures Of Tiny Genius Scientist Haibara Ai
LADIES.


Things I am getting out of Detective Conan/Magic Kaito fandom:

Kaito and Hakuba teaming up
Shinichi and Kaito teaming up
Heiji and Shinichi being bffs
All The Dudes Team Up & Take Down Black Organization
The occasional fairly good Aoko-or-Ran-finds-out fic
By and large, DUDES.

. . . GDI, FANDOM.


Item one: I sometimes feel like I should form an elite society dedicated to writing about female and gender-boundary-crossing characters. Canon is about Boys Doing Things? Let's write about the girls! . . . And then I realize that everyone who would join are people I already know.

Item two: I just realized that I only ship people with Kid, not Kaito. (Kaito/Aoko, for example, is really uninteresting to me! Childhood friends, whatevs. But give me Aoko/mysterious phantom thief and I am ALL OVER THAT.)

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There are some! I remember one where Shinichi's ghost helped Ran solve his murder, that one was pretty great. Unfortunately, there just aren't enough, and most of them focus more on Shinichi than Ran.

Something I forgot to put on the list: Ran & Shinichi professional team-up! He solves crimes, she kicks ass. The perfect partnership. I was so sad when I found out she only got to save him from things now and then, and not every time. (Shinichi, the solution to your problem of being tiny and weak is not gadgets, but a bodyguard.)

Oddly, I think the Magic Kaito side of fandom has been better with the female characters than the Detective Conan side. So if/when you read that (only four volumes, merges with Detective Conan later on) I have several fics to link you to.