Tagi Miori

Takenaga "Tagi" Miori (born October 20, 1972) is a Canadian voice actor and author. He is best known for voicing Thom in multiple Mole Miner projects and voicing Pac-Man in Pac-Man Adventures. He has additionally had starring roles in various aenimo dubs.

Early life
Tagi was born a ' Japanese-Canadian in, , the son of a teacher at a ' school in Calgary. He attended, graduating in 1991.

He studied theatre at, where he was discovered by a talent agent midway through his course. He became a professional actor in 1994, living in an attic apartment near the grounds. Miori joked that his favorite pastime was "getting animal rights activists arrested or at least chased away during Stampede season". Miori made a living with walk-on roles in Calgary-based productions such as Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. He moved to in mid-1998 to further his career.

Career
In 2000, he auditioned for Mole Miner, thinking it was another live-action role. In a call-back conversation, talent coordinator Joanne Barbara Slaveykov told him "You realize that you're voicing a grumpy rabbit, right?" In a later audition, he developed Thom's signature style of voice and his catchphrase. Slaveykov stated in an interview with XYZ News that "out of the 103 people that auditioned for Thom, Tagi was the most energetic and wild". Miori called the voice recording process "pretty bizarre" and likened it to "acting inside one of those 'record yourself singing' booths you'd find in low-end megamalls".