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[[File:G{{Infobox character| image = gozaburo11.png| en_name = Gozaburo Kaiba.jpg| ja_name = {{Ruby|海馬|かいば}}{{Ruby|剛三郎|ごうざぶろう}}| romaji_name = Kaiba Gōzaburō|thumbgender = Male|rightrelatives = * [[Noah Kaiba]] (son; deceased; ''anime only'')* [[Mokuba Kaiba]] (adopted son)* [[Seto Kaiba]] (adopted son)|250pxprevious_occupation = CEO of KaibaCorp|Gozaburoprevious_organization = [[KaibaCorp]]| anime_deck = [[File:G.K..jpgExodia Necross]]| ntr_deck = Forbidden Pact| anime_debut =* {{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|097|ref}}|thumbvideo_game_debut = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour]]''|righthide_appearances = true|250pxappears_in_anime = * ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|GozaburoYu-Gi-Oh!]]''| appears_in_nds = ''[[Gozaburo KaibaYu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour]] ''| ja_voice = {{voice actors|ja|Unsho Ishizuka|Tetsuo Komura}}| en_voice = {{voice actors|en|David Wills|Ted Lewis}} (海馬 剛三郎 season 5)| de_voice = {{voice actors|de|Engelbert von Nordhausen}}|es_voice = Victor Valverde}} '''Gozaburo Kaiba Gōzaburō) ''' is a fictional character in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime and manga series )|Yu-Gi-Oh!.Gozaburo is a rich, powerful business man who is ]]'' anime and the stepfather final antagonist of the [[Virtual World (arc)|Virtual World]] arc, after his biological son, [[Noah Kaiba]] failed and was defeated by [[Yami Yugi]]. He was [[Seto Kaiba|Seto]] and [[Mokuba Kaiba]] 's adoptive father and the former CEO of [[Seto KaibaCorp]]. ==Design=====Appearance===[[File:Gozaburo Kaiba lineart.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Gozaburo Kaibalineart]]Gozaburo's appearance was that of a tall man, with gray hair and a mustache. In the second series manga, his facial expressions showed evil and madness when he committed suicide, while in the anime , he seemed like a calm and deceitful man. He usually wore a red business suit, a black tie, and a white inner long-sleeved dress shirt. Gozaburo had brown eyes and was fair skinned. ===Personality===Gozaburo was a strict and persistent man. He was considered evil by many because he is also constantly manipulated people, including his own son, to achieve his goals. At first, Gozaburo appeared to be a caring father, training his son to succeed him as CEO of KaibaCorp. He never really cared for Noah, and rather just saw him as a tool for KaibaCorp to take over the world with. His plan was to make Noah's mindset identical to his to accomplish his goal. After Noah's accident, he only wanted to save him at any cost, but by doing so, he discovered a plan to destroy the real world and rule the virtual world instead. However, Gozaburo saw Noah's death as having a wrench thrown into his plans and did not really care about him. Originally, Gozaburo planned to have Seto become a host to replace Noah's dead body because of the limitations of the virtual world. In the English dub, Seto proved himself more capable than Noah, so he ultimately scrapped the plan. In the original, that never occurred because Noah's lack of interactions with real people inhibited his maturity. Upon hearing that, Yami Yugi, despite his difference with Seto, understood why he hated Gozaburo so much. He usually didn't recognize the biological father hard work of [[the Big Five. He was very strict with Seto, though he was nicer to Mokuba. Meanwhile, Gozaburo used Noah Kaiba]]to set his ambition into motion.<ref name="ep 119">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|119|ref}}</ref>

===History===[[File:DMx110 Younger Gozaburo.png|thumb|A photograph of Gozaburo and Noah.]][[File:DMx100 Gozaburo in TV.png|thumb|left|Gozaburo winning the World Chess Championship.]]Gozaburo was the original founder and CEO of [[Kaiba Corporation]]KaibaCorp, which , at that time , was a successful arms manufacturer. Gozaburo was also a world famous chess champion, which is how Seto and Mokuba heard Because of him at their orphanage. When Gozaburo visited, Seto challenged him to a game the nature of chesshis business, telling Gozaburo that if he refused, he would tell the press he was scared of became involved in a little kid. Gozaburo, confident war where he would not be beaten by a child, agreed financed tanks and weapons to a single gameone faction, with Seto stating the stipulation that if he winswho easily overcame their enemies.<ref name="ep 150">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|150|ref}}</ref> [[Dartz]], disguised as Gozaburo will agree , lent weapons from KaibaCorp to adopt him and his brother. In the mangaopposing faction as well, Seto cheated. In the anime, Seto had spent time studying Gozaburo's strategies and how to overcome them, and thus defeated him. Gozaburo had to keep his end of the bargainmade many people believe that he was only interested in making money through war.<ref name="ep 179">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|179|ref}}</ref>

However, he was a cruel father to Seto, forcing him to spend all his time studying and forgoing any of the joy or fun usually associated with childhood. At this one point in his biological life, Gozaburo had a son , Noah died as well. With his , of whom he intended Kaiba Corp heir digitized, Gozaburo decided to breed Seto raise as his the KaibaCorp heir, pushing him even further. His fatal mistake was when he gave Seto 2% of Kaiba Corp shares as part of a mission to earn 100 times Gozaburo looked for the amount within a year- something Seto does easily. Later, Seto, along with the board of directors, aka, [[The Big Five]], buys 49% of the companybest teachers and education for his son. Gozaburo, also spent time with 49%Noah, is ousted from power by Seto's 51%. He is reported <ref name="ep 114">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|114|ref}}</ref> and took him out to have committed suicide by jumping from the top floor of the Kaiba Corporation building (in the English anime, he ran away and disappeared)sea at one point.<ref name="ep 112">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|112|ref}}</ref>

It is revealed that Gozaburo instead digitized his mind like he did his son'sbecame a famous chess champion, and hid inside who won the Kaiba Corp computer banks. When Noah lures Seto World Championship and others, including Yugi Muto, into donated the [[Virtual World]]prize of $100, Gozaburo has Noah and 000 to the Big Five try and defeat orphanage where Seto and companyMokuba lived. When they fail one by one, Gozaburo reveals himself as the mastermind The brothers heard of the capturehim on TV, and unveils his so Seto developed a plan to digitize mankindbe adopted, studied everything that he could about chess and reign as the king of the Virtual World (this is in the English anime: the Japanese Gozaburo plans to use missiles to destroy the world). Noah pretends to lead the group to an exit to escape, but instead splits them up, leaving most and learned his way of them wandering a Virtual Domino City while Noah, realizing his father was only using him, uses Mokuba's body to escape, thinking and initiates the fortress' selfstrategies.<ref name="ep 100">{{episode|Yu-Gi-destruct sequence, intending to destroy everyone inside while he escapes.Oh!|100|ref}}</ref>

While [[Yugi Muto]] and others try to escape, Seto and When Gozaburo fight a duelvisited the orphanage, with Gozaburo intending to use Seto's body to escape he gave toys to the real world. Gozaburokids, still bitter over and on his loss to way out, Seto in chess years ago, challenges challenged him to a duel to give Seto game of chess, and told Gozaburo that if he refused, he would tell the same type defeat press that he delivered Gozaburowas scared of a little kid. As Confident that he would not be beaten by a further insultchild, Gozaburo uses the monster [[Exodia Necross]] (agreed to a ghostly dark version of [[Exodia the Forbidden One]], the monster who handed single game with Seto his first defeat in Duel Monsters against Yugi). [[Exodia Necross]] gains 1000 attack points every time it attacks, and cannot be destroyed in any way. Howeverstated the stipulation that if he won, its special abilities depend on having all 5 Exodia parts in the Graveyard. Seto uses [[Soul Demolition]] Gozaburo would agree to remove the parts from play, neutralizing Exodia Necrossadopt him along with his brother. Now stripped of its powers, Exodia Necross is destroyed by <ref name="ep 100"/> Setohad spent time studying Gozaburo's trademark [[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]strategies and how to overcome them, and thus defeated him. Gozaburo loses the duel, and had to keep his chance to escape end of the Virtual Worldbargain.<ref name="ep 100"/>

With the fortress about to be destroyedAfter he was defeated by Seto, Gozaburo attempts to take Kaiba's body by force. Yugi enters and helps Kaiba escape to the roofmet with Noah. Noah, having had He showed his son a change picture of heartSeto, appears on Gozaburo's backtold him he would be his adoptive brother, immobilizing him that both would compete to inherit KaibaCorp and opening an exit would become rivals.<ref name="ep 110">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|110|ref}}</ref> After that talk, Noah was crushed by a car. Noah was transported to the real world. As Seto and Yugi emerge on the airship and escapeKaiba Hospital, but the fortress explodes, deleting Noahdoctors couldn't do anything to save him. <ref name="ep 114"/> Gozaburo lives for wanted to save his son at any cost.<ref name="ep 119"/> After he found a few momentsway to do it through technology, somehow becoming Gozaburo digitized Noah'real' as s mind and transferred it into a KaibaCorp computer.<ref name="ep 114"/> Noah was then given a beast of flame, erupting from the ruins of the fortressfuneral. As he attempts to destroy the airshipA woman, Seto activates the airshippossibly Gozaburo's thrusterswife, jetting out of wondered how could the events have happened. Gozaburo's grasp for good and leaving him told her not to sink into the wavesworry since there was nothing that he could not do.<ref name="ep 112"/>

Although this is Gozaburo's first and final appearance Noah awoke in person, he appears in flashbacks before and after the [[Noah's Virtual World|Virtual World]]. Kaiba's goal to defeat [[Yugi Muto]] at Alcatraz ([[Battle City]]) is not only and saw Gozaburo on a mission to defeat Yugiscreen, but to overcome where he explained what happened. Gozaburo's legacy slowly expanded the Virtual World, and put it behind himeven programmed a space trip for his son. Kaiba feels <ref name="ep 115">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|115|ref}}</ref> At first, Noah thought that only when he is crowned Duel King atop the Duel Tower, amidst the rubble of the military factories Gozaburo had built therewould bring Seto to compete against him, which meant that only then can if Noah won, the Virtual World would overcome reality and he forget his past and step out of could rule KaibaCorp.<ref name="ep 119"/> Gozaburo's shadow. [[Alister]] (Amelda in the Japanese version) of [[Dartz]]true intentions were actually to use Seto's body as Noah's group (Doma in the Japanese version) also harbors a grudge towards Kaibarecipient, believing while making his adopted son think that Gozaburo funded a military attack on his town (he later realizes that the attack was instead ordered by Dartzbeing bred as his heir.<ref name="ep 119"/> However, disguised as Gozaburo). Finallysoon understood that Noah could not inherit KaibaCorp because of his lack of contact with society, in <ref name="ep 115"/> and because the [[Grand Championship]]virtual could not rule humans.<ref name="ep 119"/> Because of that, Gozaburo Kaiba makes a brief appearance in two flashbacks concerning a party where he and Mr. Schroeder discuss acompanied by Kaiba 's visits to Noah became less frequent and [[Zigfried von Schroeder]]. Mr. Schroeder tells him about a deal he is about to make, a deal which was unfortunately made wasn't amused by Gozaburo firsthis deeds.<ref name="ep 115"/>

In On Noah's birthday, Gozaburo was told by his son that with KaibaCorp's military weapons, 97% of the human population could be destroyed in 30 days.<ref name="ep 115"/> After he heard that, Gozaburo started to develop a plan to leave only the Virtual World, so he began the construction of a missile satellite to destroy the major cities across the world.<ref name="ep 119"/> That day, Seto and Mokuba arrived at the Kaiba Mansion.<ref name="ep 115"/>  Gozaburo was a cruel father to Seto, who forced him to spend all his time studying and forgoing any of the joy or fun that was usually associated with childhood. He put the condition that if Seto didn't study as intended, he would be returned to the orphanage,<ref name="ep 103">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|103|ref}}</ref> and drove his adopted son to strict educational regiment for the gifted. One day, Gozaburo asked Seto what would he do if he inherited the Japanese versionscompany, and was disappointed when Seto answered that he would create [[Kaiba Land]]. Gozaburo confiscated all the games that Seto owned because of that,<ref name="ep 103"/> and made every day like constant torture. But Gozaburo didn't realize that he was turning his successor into his greatest enemy. [[File:DMx190 Young Seto and Zigfried meet.jpg|thumb|Gozaburo, Seto, Mokuba, and Zigfried at the party.]]Gozaburo is voiced threw a party in which he invited Mr. Schroeder to discuss a deal. They were accompanied by Unsho Ishizuka Seto, Mokuba, and [[Zigfried von Schroeder]]. Mr. Schroeder first praised Gozaburo because of his fine successor and added that his son was also a genius. The lights from the party started to flicker on and off, and [[Kemo]] informed Gozaburo about a computer virus. Gozaburo was astonished as their computers were well protected and he couldn't imagine who could have done that.<ref name="ep 190">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|190|ref}}</ref> Four years later, Seto developed a virtual simulation system that was to be used in games, but Gozaburo planned to use it for warfare. One day, Seto insisted to Gozaburo that it had to be used in games, and made him angry. He told his adopted son that the first series objective of the Kaiba Family was the world domination with military weapons, and Kemo and other guard took Seto out of the office. After that, Seto stopped calling Gozaburo "father".<ref name="ep 104">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|104|ref}}</ref> One year later, Seto concluded his studies. Gozaburo made the fatal mistake when he gave Seto 2% of KaibaCorp shares as his birthday present. He put Seto on a mission to earn 100 times (10 times in the English Version) that amount through investments within a year in order to test if he was capable of inheriting KaibaCorp, or else he would return to the orphanage. Seto overcame the expectations of Gozaburo by Tetsuo Komura easily accomplishing his mission. However, Seto set in motion his own plan, he, along with the [[The Big Five|KaibaCorp Board of Directors]] (later known as The Big Five), started buying shares of KaibaCorp until they reached 49% of the company. Gozaburo, also with 49%, realized Seto's plan. Because of that, Seto hurt Mokuba to force him to spend more time with Gozaburo than with him. This was actually a ruse to deceive Gozaburo into thinking that Mokuba would support him instead of his brother. He was proven wrong when Mokuba, remaining loyal to his brother, transferred his 2% of the company to Seto.<ref name="ep 108">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|108|ref}}</ref> ===Death===Gozaburo, Seto, the Big Five, and other high ranking employees attended a meeting. There, Gozaburo, confident that he owned 51% of the company, revealed his plan to defeat Seto which consisted in transferring his shares to a subsidiary, but was ousted from power when Mokuba decided to betray him and give his 2% of the company to his brother. That weakened Gozaburo's mind and lead to him committing suicide (in the second seriesdub, he ran away and disappeared forever).<ref name="ep 108"/> ===Virtual World===[[File:DMx119 Gozaburo digitalizing.png|thumb|Gozaburo digitizing himself.]][[File:DMx119 Gozaburo revealing his plans.jpg|thumb|Gozaburo unveiling his plans.]]It was revealed that, while Gozaburo's body died, he had previously digitized his mind like he did Noah's, and hid inside the KaibaCorp computer banks. Because of Seto's treachery, his plans were shattered, so he changed them. Instead of using Seto's body as the recipient of Noah, it would become the recipient of KaibaCorp. Although Seto would rule it for a time, Gozaburo had planned on taking his body later on.<ref name="ep 119"/> When Noah lured Seto and others, including [[Yugi Muto]], into the Virtual World, Noah had the Big Five try and defeat Yugi, Seto, and company. When they failed one by one, Gozaburo revealed himself as the mastermind of the capture to everyone and Noah. He was disappointed by Noah's defeat as he could not take Seto's body, but had managed to hack into KaibaCorp's network. In Through it, he accessed his secret missile satellite. No longer needing Seto's body, he unveiled the final stage of his plan: Launching missiles against the human leaders, hack into every computer system in the world, and rule humanity through the Virtual World (in the English dub version, he wanted to digitize the entire world and reign as King of the Virtual World).<ref name="ep 119"/> Gozaburo then closed all the exits that he knew of the Virtual World. Noah then pretended to lead the group to a secret exit, but instead split them up, and left most of them wandering a Virtual [[Domino City]] while Noah, after he realized that his father was only using him, used Mokuba's body to escape, changed the trajectory of the missiles to the fortress, and intended to destroy everyone inside while he escaped.<ref name="ep 119"/> [[File:DMx121 Monster Gozaburo vs Seto.jpg|thumb|left|Gozaburo's monster form.]]While Yugi and the others tried to escape, Seto went to confront his adoptive father. Gozaburo, who was still bitter over his loss to Seto in chess years ago and because Seto ''stole'' KaibaCorp, challenged him to a duel to give him the same type defeat that he delivered to him. As a further insult, Gozaburo used the monster "[[Exodia Necross (anime)|Exodia Necross]]" (a ghostly dark version of "[[Exodia the Forbidden One (anime)|Exodia the Forbidden One]]", the monster who handed Seto his first Duel Monsters defeat). Exodia Necross gained 1000 [[ATK]] during every one of his [[Standby Phases]], could not be destroyed by Spells, Traps, and Monster Effects, and could be destroyed in battle. However, its special abilities depended on having all 5 Exodia parts in the second series[[Graveyard]].<ref name="ep 120">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|120|ref}}</ref> During the Duel, Gozaburo and Seto were informed that the fortress would be hit by a missile and the Virtual World would be destroyed. Gozaburo was astonished because of the betrayal of his own son and for his plans getting ruined again. After he is voiced knew that he would die, Gozaburo tried to take Seto's body, but Seto stopped him by offering that the winner of the duel would escape to the real world. Seto used "[[Soul Demolition (anime)|Soul Demolition]]" to [[Banish|Remove]] the Exodia parts from play, and neutralized "Exodia Necross". Now stripped of its powers, "Exodia Necross" was destroyed by Seto's "[[Blue-Eyes White Dragon]]". Gozaburo lost the Duel and his chance to escape the Virtual World.<ref name="ep 120" /> [[File:flamekaiba.png|thumb|180px|Gozaburo in his "Flame" form, during the Virtual World Story Arc.]]With the fortress about to be destroyed, Gozaburo attempted to take Kaiba's body by force by transforming into a red creature. Yugi entered and helped Kaiba escape to the real world. Noah, having had a change of heart, appeared on Gozaburo's back, immobilized him as well as prevented him from downloading himself to another network. As Seto and Yugi emerged on the airship and escaped, the fortress exploded, and deleted Noah. Gozaburo lived for a few moments, somehow became 'real' as a beast of flame, and erupted from the ruins of the fortress. As Gozaburo attempted to destroy the airship, Seto activated the airship's thrusters, jetted out of his grasp for good, and left him to sink into the waves.<ref name="ep 120" /> ===Legacy===[[wikipediaFile:David Willisgozaburowd.png|thumb|left|Gozaburo in [[Waking the Dragons]].]] Although that was Gozaburo's first and final appearance in person, he appeared in flashbacks before and after the Virtual World. Kaiba's goal to defeat Yugi Muto at Alcatraz ([[Battle City]]) was not only a mission to defeat Yugi, but to overcome Gozaburo's legacy and put it behind him. Kaiba felt that only when he was crowned Duel King atop the Duel Tower, amidst the rubble of the military factories that Gozaburo had built there, that only then could he forget his past and step out of Gozaburo's shadow.<ref name="ep 137">{{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|137|ref}}</ref> [[Alister]] of [[Dartz]]'s group, [[Doma]], also harbored a grudge toward Seto, and believed that Gozaburo had funded a military attack on his town, although he later realized that the attack was instead ordered by Dartz who was disguised as Gozaburo, and thus ended his rage against Seto.<ref name="ep 179" /> {{clear}} {{-}}==Other versions==<gallery>Gozaburo manga portal.jpg |David Willis[[Gozaburo Kaiba (manga)]]Gozaburo-Kaiba-Nightmare-Troubadour.png | [[Gozaburo Kaiba (Nightmare Troubadour)]]</gallery>

Gozaburo plays played an '''Exodia Necross Deck'''. His strategy revolved around [[summonSummon]]ing "[[Exodia Necross]]", by quickly sending the pieces of "[[Exodia]]" to the [[Graveyard]] through "[[Painful Choice (anime)|Painful Choice]]". He then relied entirely on Necross' the immunity and [[ATK|attack]] raising abilitiesof "Exodia Necross", which provided decent offense and defense, but whose weaknesses proved to be his undoing. Before his Duel with Seto, Gozaburo [[Summon]]ed a number of monsters with a chess theme against Yugi and company, using their respective chess pieces - "[[Cosmo Queen (anime)|Cosmo Queen]]" (Queen), "[[Skull Knight (anime)|Skull Knight]]" (Bishop), "[[Command Knight (anime)|Command Knight]]" (Knight), "[[Rock Ogre Grotto 1 (anime)|Rock Ogre Grotto 1]]" (Rook), and "[[Lizard Soldier (anime)|Lizard Soldier]]" (Pawn). {{Decklist||normal monsters =* [[Left Arm of the Forbidden One (anime)|Left Arm of the Forbidden One]]* [[Left Leg of the Forbidden One (anime)|Left Leg of the Forbidden One]]* [[Right Arm of the Forbidden One (anime)|Right Arm of the Forbidden One]]* [[Right Leg of the Forbidden One (anime)|Right Leg of the Forbidden One]]|effect monsters =* [[Exodia the Forbidden One (anime)|Exodia the Forbidden One]]|ritual monsters = * [[Exodia Necross (anime)|Exodia Necross]]|spells =* [[Contract with Exodia (anime)|Contract with Exodia]]* [[Painful Choice (anime)|Painful Choice]]}}

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