Kaoru Takeda



Kaoru Takeda is one of the Takeda brothers first introduced in Season 1 Arc 3. He and his older brother Tenjou arrived at Domino City where they became friends with Yugi and Joey so they start living in Yugi's house. They decide to kick Yugi out of the house, though, and it has remained that way since then. Even though Tenjou turned out to be an enemy, Kaoru hasn't had any problems with his brother's death.

Appearance & Personality
Kaoru has flaming red hair that spikes up. He wears blue jeans with rips throughout them, a plain white t-shirt, and a black jacket. His duel disk is many colors showing how he works with many different elements in his dueling deck.

Kaoru seems like a normal guy who will rarely talk and when he does it is real quiet unless he's yelling at someone or he's dueling. He tends to make fun of Altro a lot in the OVAs for his short size.

Millenium Talisman and Its Powers
The Millenium Talisman is in Kaoru's possession. The only known power it has so far is used in dueling and it allows Kaoru to change the top card on his deck into any card he wishes when the deck is shuffled.

Relationships
Though he doesn't have many, Kaoru does have relationships with characters in the board game.

Tenjou Takeda (deceased): Kaoru's older brother. The two were really close to one another until Tenjou showed his true colors.

Ryouta Ishida: Once these two teamed up to defeat Tenjou, the two have been good friends.

Joey Wheeler: Real close friends and always tell Yugi off when he says he wants his house back.

Altro: Though these two have major differences, the two seem really close now.

Arashi: During Altro's trials, Arashi spares Kaoru by giving Kaoru some of his blood and then the two are bonded this way. Kaoru can now travel to the Other World without penalties thanks to this.

His Death
As a werewolf now, he fulfills his role of fighting off vampires but confronts Hideki with his strong build is able to hold down Kaoru and shoots him in the head.

Decks
Kaoru has used 2 different decks but is now limited down to just one deck.

The deck he first used and is still using is a Koa'ki Meiru deck focused on getting Iron Core of Koa'ki Meiru over and over again as well as the powerful monsters within the series. Also uses cards that shuffle the deck for his Millenium Talisman and also has many triple sets of cards for the backup effect of his Synchro Monster, Enraged Elements Dragon.

The other deck, which was used by him and then his Evil Spirit, was a Dark Counterparts deck which focuses on the Dark Counterpart monsters and using their great abilities for great field advantage and a swift victory.