# What is the best transformation in anime?

> Hair changes colour, power levels break, and the fight resets. Moments fans queue up to rewatch.

*By YPB Team · Published August 21, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/what-is-the-best-transformation-in-anime*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

1. **Super Saiyan (Dragon Ball Z)** — score 1000/1000
   Goku's golden-haired first ascension on Namek, the most imitated power-up in anime.
2. **Majin Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)** — score 728/1000
   Vegeta's willing surrender to Babidi's control for one more shot at Goku.
3. **Gear 4 Boundman (One Piece)** — score 550/1000
   Luffy's armament-haki bounce form, introduced against Doflamingo.
4. **Gear 5 (One Piece)** — score 550/1000
   Luffy's white-haired cartoon awakening, revealed in One Piece's Wano arc.
5. **Six Paths Sage Mode (Naruto)** — score 324/1000
   Naruto's final form, marked by glowing robes and truth-seeking orbs.
6. **Ichigo's Bankai (Bleach)** — score 221/1000
   Bleach's black-bladed final release, earned in three days of training.
7. **Founding Titan (Attack on Titan)** — score 221/1000
   Eren's skeletal colossus from Attack on Titan's final arc.
8. **Ultra Instinct (Dragon Ball Super)** — score 221/1000
   Goku's silver-eyed reflex state from the Tournament of Power.
9. **Escanor's The One (Seven Deadly Sins)** — score 97/1000
   The Seven Deadly Sins' Lion Sin at noon, the hour his power peaks.

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