Mokuba Kaiba

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Mokuba Kaiba in Vol.3 of the original manga
Appears in manga:
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Original manga)
Yu-Gi-Oh! R
anime:
Yu-Gi-Oh! (1st series anime)
Yu-Gi-Oh! (Duel Monsters) (2nd series anime)
movie:
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light
Debut Yu-Gi-Oh! (original and English manga) Volume 3, Duel 24
Birthday July 7
Deck {{{Deck}}}
Sign Cancer
Age 10-11 at debut; 11-12 at series' end; 21-22 in Gx debut
Height 142 cm (about 4 feet and 11 inches)
Weight 28 kg (61.6 pounds)
Blood type O
Favorite food Chocolate parfait
Least favorite food Celery
Status at debut Elementary school student, Vice-President of Kaiba Corporation
Relations Elder brother: Seto Kaiba
Adoptive father: Gozaburo Kaiba
Adoptive brother: Noah Kaiba
Seiyū 1st series: Katsue Miwa
2nd series: Junko Takeuchi
Voice actor(s) Tara Sands (Tara Jayne) (Season 1-4)
Caroline Lawson (Season 5)

Mokuba Kaiba (海馬 モクバ Kaiba Mokuba?) is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. Mokuba is Seto Kaiba's younger brother. In the manga, Mokuba is characterized as a spoiled brat, always trying to trick Yugi Mutou to get back at him for defeating his older brother. In the first series of the manga Mokuba tries to defeat Yugi before Kaiba has a chance and challenges Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler in the English anime) and Yugi to a Roulette of Death and poisons Jonouchi. Yugi eventually wins and saves Jonouchi. Mokuba is another good game player who specializes in Capsule Monster Chess ("Capmon"), but is not as good of a gamer as his brother. He is so committed to avenging his brother's humiliation, he uses several extreme measures, such as having his friends brandish a machine gun, a knife, and a stun gun in one manga chapter to coerce Yugi to play "Capmon" with him. In the second series of the anime, Mokuba is eternally devoted to his brother Seto Kaiba and is constantly by his side. He is more naive and good-natured, the antithesis of his scathing, cynnical brother.

In the manga, at a young age, Mokuba and Seto were orphaned (their actual surnames unknown). Seto's mother died after Mokuba was born, and their father died in an accident when Seto was eight. Their relatives used up their inheritance and left them at the orphanage. When the former head of Kaiba Corporation, Gozaburo Kaiba, arrived at the orphanage to perform a publicity stunt, Seto saw the chance to challenge him to a game of chess, with Gozaburo forced to adopt Seto and Mokuba should he win. Mokuba was five at the time, while Seto was ten in the manga and Japanese anime, and in the English Duel Monsters anime he was twelve.

Mokuba from the second series anime
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Mokuba from the second series anime

Seto had won by cheating in the manga. In the anime, he won by studying Gozaburo's chess methods. Gozaburo forced Seto into a rigorous accelerated school program. Six years later, Seto Kaiba took over his father's company. In the manga and the second series of the original Japanese anime, Gozaburo, provoked by Seto, committed suicide. In the first series, Seto electrocutes Gozaburo after Seto takes over the company. In the English anime, he "ran away".

In the second series anime, Seto was bright and intelligent, which led to many prospective parents wanting to adopt him, Seto swore to protect his brother at all costs, and wanted Mokuba adopted with him, which all had refused. Gozaburo also had an ulterior motive: he wanted to adopt Seto because he was bright enough to be motivation for his own son, Noah Kaiba, to do better so that Noa could inherit KaibaCorp. With Noah's untimely death, however, Gozaburo focused his energies to Seto. Gozaburo asked Seto to return ten times of an amount of money given to him. Seto did so within a day and took over his father's company. In the Battle City arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!, Mokuba is the Battle City commissioner (he called himself that), calling violations and penalties when needed.

In the original Japanese version of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Mokuba tends to omit honorifics when referring to people other than his older brother. He also has a habit of calling Jonouchi Jōnouchi no yarō; (that bastard Jonouchi). Mokuba politely refers to his older brother as nii-sama (honorable older brother).

Mokuba from the first series anime
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Mokuba from the first series anime

In the second series Yu-Gi-Oh! anime (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters), Mokuba is a kind-hearted boy who is naïve to the ways of the world. He succeeds in befriending Yugi and his friends; his brother does not approve of this.

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Composition

Japanese manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! (in future updates) | Yu-Gi-Oh! R

Japanese anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japan-exclusive) | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

English manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! / Yu-Gi-Oh! Duelist / Yu-Gi-Oh! Millennium World

English anime: Yu-Gi-Oh! | Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters

Movies: Yu-Gi-Oh! (Japan-exclusive) | Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light

Media and release information: Yu-Gi-Oh!


Characters

Protagonists: Yugi Mutou | Dark (Yami) Yugi | Katsuya Jonouchi (Joey Wheeler) | Anzu Mazaki (Téa Gardner)
Hiroto Honda (Tristan Taylor) | Ryo Bakura | Miho Nosaka (Melody)

Antagonists: Dark (Yami) Bakura | Pegasus J. Crawford (Maximillion Pegasus) | "Bandit" Keith Howard | Meikyū Brothers (Paradox Brothers) | Big Five | Marik Ishtar | Dark (Yami) Marik | Noah Kaiba | Gozaburo Kaiba | Dartz | Rafael | Valon | Amelda (Alister) | Siegfried von Schroider (Zigfried von Schroeder) | Akhenaden (Aknadin)

Other characters: Seto Kaiba | Mokuba Kaiba | Sugoroku Mutou (Solomon Muto) | Shadi | Mai Kujaku (Mai Valentine) | Shizuka Kawai (Shizuka Jonouchi, Serenity Wheeler) | Insector Haga (Weevil Underwood) | Dinosaur Ryuzaki (Rex Raptor) | Rebecca Hopkins (Rebecca Hawkins) | Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) | Ishizu Ishtar | Rishid Ishtar (Odion Ishtar) | Leonhart von Schroider (Leon von Schroeder)

See also: Yu-Gi-Oh! main characters | Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga characters | Yu-Gi-Oh! anime, manga or movie only characters


Merchandise

Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game | Duel Disk


Yu-Gi-Oh!-related books (not including manga)

In English: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Monster Duel Official Handbook | Yu-Gi-Oh! Enter the Shadow Realm: Mighty Champions

In Japanese: Yu-Gi-Oh! (novel) | Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Duel Monsters Official Rule Guide - The Thousand Rule Bible | Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game Duel Monsters Official Card Catalog The Valuable Book: See this link | Yu-Gi-Oh! Character Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth


Yu-Gi-Oh!-related video games

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