Gozaburo Kaiba

海馬剛三郎

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Gozaburo was the original founder and CEO of Kaiba Corporation, which at that time was a successful arms manufacturer. He was also a world famous chess champion, which is how Seto and Mokuba heard of him at their orphanage. When Gozaburo visited, Seto challenged him to a game of chess, telling Gozaburo that if he refused, he would tell the press he was scared of a little kid. Gozaburo, confident he would not be beaten by a child, agreed to a single game, with Seto stating the stipulation that if he wins, Gozaburo will agree to adopt him and his brother. In the manga, 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 bargain. 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 point his biological son Noah died as well. With his intended Kaiba Corp heir digitized, Gozaburo decided to breed Seto as his 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 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 company. Gozaburo, also with 49%, is ousted from power by Seto's 51%. He is reported to have committed suicide by jumping from the top floor of the Kaiba Corporation building. (in the English anime, he ran away and disappeared.) In the manga Gozaburo commits suicide by jumbing out the window of the Kaiba Corporation's meeting room after his son seizes control of the company. Before that, Seto smirks and asks "Have I learned what you wanted, father?". Gozaburo replies that he lost the game with Seto and asks him to burn it into his brain that this is what happens to a loser. After his father's suicide, Kaiba remarks that to lose means to die and thanks Gozaburo for teaching him that. In the Toei anime, Gozaburo was conducting business in Europe and had left control of his company's headquarters in Japan to Seto. Near the end of the series, Gozaburo returned from his business trip and arrives at Kaiba Corps via helicopter. Displeased with the fact Kaibaland exceeded its allotted construction budget by three times what he allowed, he called Seto and the other executives of the company to a meeting room within the building. Though he intended to remove Seto from his position as acting CEO of the company and punish him, Seto revealed that the other executives had sided with him against Gozaburo and were planning to oust him from the company. In disbelief, Gozaburo panicked. Seto told him that those who lose in the game of life do not deserve to live, saying that it was a favored phrase of Gozaburo himself. This prompted him to look out the window behind him at the street several stories below, possibly contemplating suicide like his manga counterpart. However, he collapsed on the ground after this. His fate is unknown beyond this point. In the Japanese versions, Gozaburo is voiced by Unsho Ishizuka in the first series and by Tetsuo Komura in the second series. In the English dub of the second series, he is voiced by Richard Will and Ted Lewis in Episode 190.