Japanese: 柳生・ジャグワァ・玄兵衛 (danbooru's official Romanization: [b]Yagyuu "Jaguar" Genbei[/b])
North American version: [b]Genbei "Jaguar" Yagyu[/b]

A playable character from the [[Contra]] [[video game]] series. He appears in the [[Neo Contra]] game from 2004.

Genbei is a mysterious [[samurai]] soldier and [[Bill Rizer]]'s new partner in combat. He is a [[dark skin]]ned humanoid [[alien]] from the "isolated":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakoku planet "Oh! Edo". (Edo is the former name of Japan's capital.)
He is the only character in Neo Contra able to wield a [[Katana]] [[sword]], the most powerful weapon in the game.

One of playable characters in [[Contra ReBirth]] is called "YAGYU", but he looks completely different from "Jaguar" in the Neo Contra.

Some fans believe his design was based on "a historical person,":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuke but nothing official has been said about that.

yagyuu jaguar genbei