Gansley

Gansley is one of the Big Five in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. He is the leader and founder of the Big Five. He is bald except for the gray hair on the side of his head, and possibly is the oldest, as he has a cane.

Gansley's business career began with a lemonade stand that he stole from his neighbor. He soon became the biggest lemonade distributor, and then started working for Gozaburo at Kaiba Corp. With the other four members of the Big Five, Gansley conspired with Kaiba to take over Kaiba Corp and overthrow Gozaburo. Their plan succeeded, but Kaiba betrayed them, so when Pegasus attempted to take over Kaiba Corp, the Big Five joined forces with him to help him. After Pegasus was defeated by Yugi in a duel, Kaiba fired the Big Five, but they trapped him in his own virtual world and attempted to sacrifice him to the lava pit to awaken the Mythic Dragon. When Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Mokuba entered the game, the Big Five summoned the Mythic Dragon themselves, but when Yugi and Kaiba combined their monsters to destroy it, the Big Five were imprisoned in the virtual world.

They were there so long their bodies were destroyed, until they found Noah and entered his virtual world. They agreed to defeat Yugi, Kaiba, and the others, as they needed to steal their bodies to escape.

Gansley took the form of Deep Sea Warrior and dueled Yugi. His deck is water themed, and he was able to sacrifice two monsters to create a barrier to reflect any of Yugi's attacks back at him. However, with Kuriboh as his deck master (though Yugi intended to choose the Dark Magician), he was able to attack Gansley directly and defeat him.

Gansley was digitized, but not destroyed; he later returned alongside his defeated comrades Crump, Johnson, and Lector, attempting to steal the bodies of Joey, Serenity, and Duke. However, Noah recalled them, as they had not won them in a duel. Eventually they all entered Tristan's body, which had been stolen by Nesbitt. They dueled together against Yugi and Joey, rotating around. Gansley was only dueling for one turn before Crump took over. Yugi and Joey defeated the Big Five. They attempted to steal the gang's bodies again, but Noah sent them back to his room. They asked him for another chance, but he gave them no more chances, and imprisoned them each in a different corner of the virtual world.

Gansley was killed along with Noah, Gozaburo, and the other members of the Big Five when Noah caused a satellite attack that destroyed the fortress that the virtual world was stationed in, deleting the virtual world and anyone in it.