1. Golden Age (Berserk)
2. Return of Evil Tekkamen arc (Space Knight Tekkaman Blade) - if counting animes. If not, Den/Nova's lab arc in original Alita
3. Chimera Ant arc (anime)
4. Downfall of Miki arc (Kurosagi/Shin Kurosagi)
5. Yoshioka Clan arc (Vagabond, 2nd one)
6. Yorkshin City arc (1999...
Yeah the manga is much better. The games don't feel that dragged out compared to professional basketball games and it's very fluid unlike the shitty animation in the anime.
Anime as a whole would be pretty niche if it weren't dubbed. Yu-Gi-Oh's popularity would likely not have been as great and Pokemon would just pass for a Saturday morning WB Cartoon. Maybe we'd have young adult fans comparing Tetsuo from Akira to Vegeta.
It seems like Dodoria, Freeza and Zarbon all have androgynous qualities.
Freeza talks in an effeminate manner and his lips are colored dark purple, Dodoria is pink and his name sounds feminine and Zarbon is so handsome he comes off as womanly.