Jinbei Tanigawa Jinbei Tanigawa is a character in " Yu - Gi - Oh ! 5D ' s " and a member of Team Taiyo . Biography . Pre - WRGP . Jinbei lived in a small village along with Yoshizo Hayashi and Taro Yamashita . Since their families ran farms , they weren ' t well off with money and when Taro saw a poster about the WRGP , he along with his friends began to create a Duel Runner and a Deck . Jinbei wasn ' t happy about this though , as making a Duel Runner and finding good enough cards to participate in a large tournament would be hard . When he returned from gathering cards , all he found were weak Normal Monster s . He then ran off and found a person whose car was broken down , so he repaired the car and the man took him to his villa where he met 2 of the man ' s friends , 1 of which mistakes him for a mechanic and asks him to fix the air conditioning . When Jinbei finishes fixing the air conditioner , he goes to the lounge to talk to them and sees that one of the man ' s friends had given him " Trishula , Dragon of the Ice Barrier " . Calling it a powerful card , he then muses on how easy it is for city people to get high - class cards yet he is surprised when the man just throws it away as if it was nothing . To thank Jinbei for fixing several of their items they take him to Restaurant Mine to buy him a meal when they crash into a gang ' s Duel Runner , which makes them run off and be chased by the gang . The man driving the car abandons his friends and Jinbei decides to go and save them . Then , the gang hear sirens of Sector Security with the leader finding out it was Taro and Yoshizo ' s doing , which gives the 3 friends a chance to escape from the gang . They went on top of a hill saying that their strategy to winning lies in using " Key Mace " . As the sun rose up , Taro declares to his team name as Team Taiyo resulting to Yoshizo and Jinbei to agree . World Riding Grand Prix . Jinbei appears trying to help Yoshizo after he fell off his Duel Runner so that he would hit Leo . As Yoshizo tries to apologize , Jinbei says he shouldn ' t since Leo got in the way . When Leo get hurt after almost being hit , Taro takes him to an old hotel . After Leo introduces himself and being part of Team 5D ' s pit crew , he quickly discovers that they only have 1 Duel Runner , but was damaged due to the Diablo incident . Leo offers to convince Yusei to fix it , but Jinbei refuses and Leo leaves . Jinbei and the team decide to try and fix it themselves but it was no use . They try again at a park with no improvement when Leo comes with Yusei and Bruno . As Bruno wanted to fix the Duel Runner , Jinbei protests not to touch their Duel Runner . Taro was able to convince Jinbei to fix it if they wanted to be in the finals . Before the finals begin , they find out that they go against Team 5D ' s . Jinbei can be seen commenting on Jack Atlas and Crow Hogan ' s ace cards " Red Dragon Archfiend " and " Black - Winged Dragon " as rare cards , detesting the cards , implying they don ' t need a rare card to win and defeat the 2 dragons . Deck . Like the rest of his team , Jinbei ' s Deck consists mainly of common cards , being weak Normal Monster s or basic Trap and Spell Card s . His main strategy is to swarm the field with monsters and support them with various Traps and " Hand - Holding Genie " .