Editing Gansley

{{Infobox character
| headers               = true
| image                 = gansley.png
| en_name               = Gansley
| ja_trans_name         = Konosuke Oshita
| other_names           = Big 1
| ja_name               = 大下 幸之助
| romaji_name           = Ōshita Kōnosuke
| gender                = Male
| previous_occupation   = Vice-president of business strategy
| previous_organization = [[KaibaCorp]]
| team                  = [[The Big Five]]
| anime_deck            = [[WATER]]/[[Reptile]]
| deck_master           = [[Deepsea Warrior (anime)|Deepsea Warrior]]
| ntr_deck              = Ocean Conqueror
| anime_debut           = {{episode|Yu-Gi-Oh!|8|ref}}
| video_game_debut      = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler]]''
| hide_appearances      = true
| appears_in_anime      = [[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|''Yu-Gi-Oh!'']]
| appears_in_gba        = * ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler]]''
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction]]''
| appears_in_nds        = ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! Nightmare Troubadour]]''
| ja_voice              = {{voice actors|ja|Nobuyuki Saitō|Shintaro Sonooka|e1=(Legendary Heroes)|e2=(Virtual World)}}
| en_voice              = {{voice actors|en|Eric Stuart|Marc Thompson|e1=(Duelist Kingdom/Legendary Heroes)|e2=(Virtual World)}}
| de_voice              = {{voice actors|de|Klaus Lochthove|Roland Hemmo|e1=(Legendary Heroes)|e2=(Virtual World)}}
| es_voice              = {{voice actors|es|Carlos Kaniowski|Antonio Villar|e1=(Spain; Virtual World)|e2=(Spain; Legendary Heroes)}}
}}

'''Gansley''', known as '''Konosuke Oshita''' in the Japanese version, is a character in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' anime. He is the former Vice-President of Business Strategy of [[KaibaCorp]] and the leader/founder of [[the Big Five]], where he is the oldest of the group.

==Design==

===Appearance===
Gansley is a fair skinned old man with gray hair, who is partially bald. He is short, fat, and carries a cane. He wears a double-breasted tan suit. In the Virtual World, he takes the appearance of [[Deepsea Warrior]]. He bears some resemblance to the historical figure of Ciceron, this may or not may be intentional.

===Personality===
Gansley is obsessed with business, and as such refers to his monsters as employees. He often flaunts his knowledge of business and believes that his corporate experience gives him an advantage when it comes to Dueling. He is shown to have been unethical in his career, often firing employees as he pleased. In the dub, he gives [[Yugi Muto]] advice on business, claiming his own career as a corporate tycoon started as a child, where he stole a lemonade stand from a neighbor, and expanded that into the largest distributor of frozen canned lemonade in his region. 

In the Japanese version, he quotes various warlords and philosophers on how to build a successful army.

In the Japanese version, Gansley knows of [[Yami Yugi]]'s existence and refers to Yugi as Type-A and Yami Yugi as Type-B Yugi. In the dub, Gansley shows no knowledge of Yami Yugi.

Gansley also enjoys making people suffer. This is shown when he had the chance of defeating Yami Yugi, but chose to "draw it out as long as possible." Gansley's choice of prolonging his victory ended in his own defeat.

===Voice and mannerisms===
In the dub, Gansley speaks with a somewhat hoarse voice. In the Duelist Kingdom arc, his voice is low. In the Virtual World arc, his voice deepens and is louder.

==Biography==
===KaibaCorp===
Gansley worked as vice-president of business strategy at [[KaibaCorp]]. Gansley, along with 4 other KaibaCorp employees formed a group known as [[the Big Five]].

[[Seto Kaiba]], the adoptive son of the head of KaibaCorp, [[Gozaburo Kaiba]], convinced the Big Five that Gozaburo was mistreating them and that Setup would help restore them to their former power. The Big Five agreed, and thus bought 49% of KaibaCorp. Combined with 2% that Gozaburo had previously given to Seto for a test to prove his business skill, the Big Five voted out Gozaburo and voted in Seto as the president of the company.

===Duelist Kingdom===
However, Seto quickly backed out on their deal, left them of their power and leaving the Big Five little more than figureheads and consultants. Furious over their betrayal, the Big Five struck a deal with the president of [[Industrial Illusions]], [[Maximillion Pegasus]] in an attempt to overthrow Seto. If Pegasus defeated Seto and [[Yugi Muto]] in Duels, then they will use their 49% to vote Pegasus into power of the company by kidnapping [[Mokuba Kaiba]], who had been entrusted with the security codes to the two percent the Big Five needed.

The Big Five and Pegasus' plan failed, after Pegasus was defeated by Yugi. In the manga, Gansley and the Big Five were fired by Seto and were never seen again.

===Legendary Heroes===
[[File:big5LH.png|thumb|right|Gansley in [[Legendary Heroes]] arc.]]
In the anime, the Big Five avoided being fired by making excuses and offering Seto his complete virtual reality game as a peace offering. Eager to try out the virtual reality game, Kaiba refrained from immediately firing them and entered the virtual world. The Big Five then trapped Kaiba in the virtual reality.

However Kaiba was rescued by Mokuba, Yugi, [[Joey Wheeler|Joey]], and [[Mai Valentine]]. The Big Five reprogrammed the game and set the "[[Mythic Dragon (anime)|Mythic Dragon]]" as the final boss. However, it was defeated by Yugi and Kaiba's "[[Dragon Master Knight (anime)|Dragon Master Knight]]".

===Virtual World===
After losing in [[Legendary Heroes]], the Big Five were trapped in the [[Noah's Virtual World|Virtual World]] instead of Kaiba. Here they met up with [[Noah Kaiba]]. Having Seto as a common enemy, they made plans for revenge.

During the [[Battle City]] tournament, Noah had the KaibaCorp blimp sucked into an undersea fortress, where the virtual world's main servers are. They forced Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, along with Yugi and his friends into the virtual world again. Using an altered set of [[Duel Monsters]] rules, involving [[Deck Master]]s, the Big Five Dueled their enemies in the hopes of stealing their bodies to escape the virtual reality.

[[File:Gansley.jpg|thumb|left|Gansley as "[[Deepsea Warrior (anime)|Deepsea Warrior]]"]]
Gansley took the form of "[[Deepsea Warrior (anime)|Deepsea Warrior]]", which he used as his Deck Master. He chose to Duel Yami Yugi, and claimed to have perfected a strategy to defeat him. As Yami Yugi constructed a Deck, Gansley misinterpreted Yami Yugi saying "[[Kuriboh (anime)|Kuriboh]]", as him choosing "Kuriboh" as his Deck Master. He refused to let the Pharaoh change his Deck Master after that. Exploiting his Deck Master's ability to deflect attacks back at Yami Yugi, Gansley managed to get the upper hand against Yami Yugi and was about to win, but Yugi took control and used "Kuriboh's" Deck Master effect to save them. Yami then used "Kuriboh", combined with "[[Rainbow Blessing]]", allowing him to bypass Gansley's monsters and special ability to directly attack him with "[[Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight (anime)|Swift Gaia the Fierce Knight]]", defeating him.

Gansley, along with [[Crump]], [[Johnson]], and [[Leichter]], having failed to win their targets' bodies, went behind Noah's back and attempted to steal the bodies. They chased down [[Duke Devlin]], [[Serenity Wheeler]], and Joey. As they argue over who gets which bodies, Noah makes contact and told them off. Since [[Nezbitt]] didn't rightfully take [[Tristan Taylor]]'s body, Noah allowed the Big Five to share Tristan's body in order to Duel Yugi. Should they win, they would get their freedom.

The Big Five faced Yugi and Joey, using Tristan's body. The 5 each switched control and Deck Master throughout the Duel. Gansley only took full control for 1 turn. Towards the end of the Duel, the Big Five used "[[Dragon Revival Ritual]]" to combine their Deck Masters into the "[[Mythic Dragon (anime)|Mythic Dragon]]" again. The dragon was destroyed by Yugi and Joey's "[[Mirage Knight (anime)|Mirage Knight]]", but the Big 5 used "[[A Deal with Dark Ruler (anime)|A Deal with Dark Ruler]]" to make "[[Berserk Dragon (anime)|Berserk Dragon]]" their Deck Master. Ultimately, it was destroyed by "[[Dark Magician Knight (anime)|Dark Magician Knight]]", costing them the Duel.

Noah refused to give Gansley and the Big Five any more chances; in the original version, Noah deleted Gansley along with the other Big Five members. In the dub, Noah instead imprisoned the Big Five in the different corners of the Virtual World, which were destroyed when the rest of the Virtual World was destroyed. Gansley later appeared in a flashback.

==Decks==
Gansley uses a '''[[Reptile]]/[[WATER]] Deck''' that relies on [[Summon]]ing many monsters to use the [[Deck Master ability|ability]] of his [[Deck Master]] "[[Deepsea Warrior (anime)|Deepsea Warrior]]", called "''Reflector Hole''", which [[negate]]s an opposing [[attack]] and inflicts [[effect damage|damage]] to the opponent equal to the attacking monster's [[ATK]] at a cost of two [[Tribute]]s. Gansley further uses control cards to limit his opponent's options, either depleting their [[hand]] or limiting the number of monsters they can maintain on the [[field]].

{{Decklist|Anime Deck
|normal monsters =
* [[Melchid the Four-Face Beast (anime)|Melchid the Four-Face Beast]]
|effect monsters =
* [[Ashingray]] x3<ref group=Notes name=hand>The third copy can be seen in his [[hand]] during [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 101|episode 101]] before he Summons "[[Melchid the Four-Face Beast (anime)|Melchid the Four-Face Beast]]".</ref>
* [[Deepsea Warrior (anime)|Deepsea Warrior]]
* [[Ipiria (anime)|Ipiria]]
* [[Rainbow Snake Eingana]]
* [[Ruklamba the Spirit King (anime)|Ruklamba the Spirit King]] x3
* [[Wall of Illusion (anime)|Wall of Illusion]]
* [[Yowie (anime)|Yowie]]
|spells =
* [[Offerings to the Doomed (anime)|Offerings to the Doomed]]
* [[Premature Burial (anime)|Premature Burial]] 
}}

===The Big Five===
{{main|The Big Five#Deck}}
When they faced Yugi and Joey, the Big Five Dueled as one in the body of [[Tristan Taylor]], rotating their [[Deck Master]]s in turn, as well as which member of The Big Five had control.

==Duels==
{| class="wikitable card-list"
|-
! Opponent(s) || Episode(s) || Outcome(s)
|-
| [[Yugi Muto]]/[[Yami Yugi]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 099|99]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 101|101]] || Lose
|-
| [[Yugi Muto]]/[[Yami Yugi]] and [[Joey Wheeler]] || [[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 111|111]]-[[Yu-Gi-Oh! - Episode 113|113]] || Lose (with [[The Big Five]]; through [[Tristan Taylor]])
|}

==Trivia==
*Unlike the other four, Gansley is not shown disintegrating when he is defeated by Yami Yugi.
*He is the only member of the Big Five whose Duel takes three episodes instead of two (though this could likely be due to more focus on the other characters). Ironically, he only Dueled for one turn in the Duel against Yugi and Joey.
*He is also the only member of the Big Five to not express interest in taking a female form; Crump tried to take over Téa's body (Japanese version only), Nezbitt specifically intended to do the same to Serenity over Tristan and Duke, Johnson disguises himself as Mai when he introduces himself to Joey, and Leichter, while not explicitly trying to steal Serenity's body, seemed to give her and Joey equal consideration before getting into an argument with Crump.
*Along with Johnson, Gansley is featured the most in Season 1.

==Notes==
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