Kaiba Corporation
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| Kaiba Corporation | |
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| Yu-Gi-Oh! (manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! (Toei series), Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's |
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| CEO | Seto Kaiba |
| Workforce | 2000 |
| Annual Income | ¥150,000,000,00 |
| Collaborators | Industrial Illusions |
Kaiba Corporation, shortened to KaibaCorp, is a high-tech business run by the Kaiba family. The products it manufactures and sells have changed vastly over the years, from weapons to gaming equipment. The gaming division of the company works closely together with Industrial Illusions, particularly for the collectible card game Duel Monsters (Magic and Wizards in the original manga). The latest CEO of KaibaCorp is Seto Kaiba. There are known to be KaibaCorp headquarters in Domino City and the USA.
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[edit] History
The Kaiba Corporation was set up by the father of Gozaburo Kaiba, and was originally known as Kaiba Heavy-Machinery Industry, taking advantage of the wars at the time to see weapons and vehicles for combat. The focus shifted to high-tech equipment when Gozaburo took over, including ICs. After being defeated at a game of chess by Seto, Gozaburo adopted Seto and his brother Mokuba. He ruthlessly trained Seto to make him fit for success, and the boy learned well. Gaining majority shares with the help of the Big Five - the KaibaCorp board of directors - Seto wrested control of the company. In the manga, Gozaburo immediately threw himself to his demise from a high-storey window to finalize his belief that losing equals nothing less than death.
[edit] Modern Events
Seto moved the high-tech industry towards gaming, and brought about great advances in holographic technology and beyond. Since the company's reputation depends on Seto's status as the number one gamer in Japan, stock plummets when Seto is defeated at Magic and Wizards by Yugi Mutou at KaibaCorp's very first theme park, Kaiba Land. Seto is placed in a comatose state and some corporate downsizing takes place. These are the events of the manga, and happen differently in Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters. Instead, Seto is defeated at the KaibaCorp headquarters and goes into hiding.
The Big Five and Pegasus J. Crawford, head of Industrial Illusions, plan a corporate takeover, but are foiled when Seto emerges from the coma and travels to Duelist Kingdom island. Seto manages to avoid several assassination attempts, but loses his soul to Pegasus. However, Pegasus is defeated by Yugi in the duel that was supposed to prove to the Big Five that Pegasus was worthy to become head of the company. Seto's soul is afterwards returned to his body.
Seto's greatest achievement throws the company into the spotlight once again: the incredibly realistic Solid Vision System. Domino City is taken under the control of KaibaCorp for a brief period in the name of Seto's Battle City tournament. The tournament finals are held at the Alcatraz Duel Tower, on an island which was previously an industrial complex, before Seto tore it down. The Duel Tower itself is demolished as well after the tournament ends. Seto leaves to develop Kaiba Land theme parks all across the globe.
Three years before the Battle City tournament, Gozaburo Kaiba had sold a virtual reality simulator which Seto had developed to another country for use as a military simulator.
In the Doma arc of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime, KaibaCorp is forcefully taken over by the Doma Organisation and the US headquarters becomes severely damaged by real-life Duel Monsters. After Doma's leader, Dartz, is defeated, ownership goes back to Seto. Seven years before the events of Doma, KaibaCorp tanks were stationed in the home town of Amelda, but because of the sinister influence of Dartz, KaibaCorp sold weapons to both sides in the conflict.
As Seto is hosting his KC Grand Prix tournament in Kaiba Land USA, Siegfried von Schroider hacks into the system and spreads viruses, meddling with KaibaCorp files and the Solid Vision System. Luckily, Seto's superior computing skills manage to counteract the threat, as well as humiliatingly defeating Siegfriend in a duel.
Yu-Gi-Oh! R bases itself around a new attack on KaibaCorp, this time by Yakou Tenma of Industrial Illusions. Yakou hacks into the Duel Link Cyber System and takes control of the company in the name of Industrial Illusions. Seto immediately flies to Domino from the North American Junior Championship tournament he was overseeing, to regain control. Although he is defeated by Yakou, Yugi successfully foils Tenma's plan and once again control of KaibaCorp is returned to the Kaiba family.
[edit] KaibaCorp Technology
[edit] Duel Box
The Duel Box is the first of the 3D technologies developed by KaibaCorp for use in games. It is a glass cube with a table and two chairs in the center. When playing Magic and Wizards, the box will scan the details of a card placed on the table and produce a 3D hologram of that monster. This technology is introduced in Death-T, where Seto duels Yugi's grandfather Sugoroku using the Duel Box. A variation of the Duel Box is used for Mokuba and Yugi's following game of Capsule Monster Chess. When a Capsule Monster piece is placed onto the game board on the table, a holographic representation will appear on the large-scale arena below. These Duel Boxes are also fitted to activate the 'experience of death': the loser of the game will become trapped inside the box by horrifying projections and effects designed to imitate Dark Yugi's penalty games. A dome version of the Duel Box is also used for the final round of Death-T.
Pegasus J. Crawford uses Duel Boxes in the Duelist Kingdom tournament in the manga. The field screen on the table shows the terrain 40 meters in every direction from the location of the Duel Box, which gives certain monsters a Field Power Source bonus. is The special box used in the final duels of the tournament has no glass walls around it. The Duel Box was replaced in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime by the Duel Ring. A reference was given to the Duel Box, however, in the form of Siegfried von Schroider's holographic system plans.
[edit] Duel Ring
The Duel Ring is a more sizable replacement for the Duel Box, used notably at Duelist Kingdom island, where they are actually dug deep into the island and rise up from under the ground. The holograms they produce are far larger than those of the Duel Boxes.
[edit] Duel Disk
Main Article: Duel Disk
The Duel Disk is a device which is worn on the wrist, and once it is introduced as the replacement of the Duel Box and Duel Ring it instantly becomes the main device for playing Duel Monsters using Solid Vision holograms. Throughout all the Yu-Gi-Oh! series, there are many variations on the basic Kaiba Corporation Duel Disk. During Duelist Kingdom, Seto reveals a prototype of what would become evolve into the standard Duel Disk.
