Taro Yamada

Taro Yamada is the main protagonist of the Rent a Hero series.

Appearance
Taro is an ordinary 16-year old teenager with blonde hair, wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and brown sneakers with white laces/stripes.

While wearing the Super Energy Combat Armor, Taro uses a blue suit, a bright purple visor covering his eyes and a silver chestplate, gauntlets, shoulder pads and boots with red accents.

Trivia

 * Taro (written as Rentahero in-game) appears in Fighters Megamix as a hidden playable character, who can be unlocked by clearing Course F in the one-player mode.
 * Taro appears in a poster from the arcade version of Virtua Fighter 2 in the Sarah vs. Jacky stage.
 * Taro (written as Rent-A-Hero in-game) is a capsule toy in Shenmue and Shenmue II.
 * In Segagaga, Taro appears in the final cutscene alongside fellow SEGA characters such as Alex Kidd, Harrier, Hayate (Joe Musashi's son from Shadow Dancer), a penguin from Doki Doki Penguin Land and many others.
 * Taro was referenced in Project x Zone 2 by Akira Yuki and Kage-Maru during their pre-battle dialogue with Captain Commando, given the latter's resemblance to him.
 * Taro appears as one of the player icons based on SEGA franchises in Sonic Colors: Ultimate.
 * Taro (written Rent A Hero in-game) appears as one of the puzzles in Picross S: Genesis & Master System Edition.
 * Alongside Dr. Eggman and Carbuncle, Taro appears as a Egg Monster in a limited-time collaboration from Square Enix's mobile re-release of Hanjuku Hero: Aa, Sekaiyo Hanjukunare...!.