TaiMiri

TaiMiri is the het ship between Taiga and Miri Unasaka from the Buddy Daddies fandom.

Canon
Taiga is Miri's classmate and friend inside Aozora Daycare, and is usually seen hanging out with her along with Kotori and Hinata, who are also the girl's friends.

In Love Is Blind, Anna comments Kazuki about how Miri has gotten into a fight with a friend of hers, being her the one who started it, and he decides to talk with her back home. The girl denied his claims about having been involved on something like that, and Miri explains a bit how her classmate, Taiga, was being bad, but due to Kazuki's insistence on getting to the point, she gets angry at him while telling how she hated Kazuki, shocking him. The next day she only ignored Kazuki due to their fight.

Throughout their field trip at Aozora Daycare Miri and her group of friends were hanging out under supervision seeing some monkeys, and Taiga pranks them by scaring the three girls and also the animal, ruining the fun. Miri reprimands him that he made too much noise and scared the monkeys away. Kotori and Hinata tell Miri that he was just mean, leaving Taiga behind and Miri was the last one as he sees him and joins her other friends. A pouting Taiga splits from the group, but Miri warns him that it wasn't safe going by his own, but he reassures from a distance he was going to be fine, but Miri kept yelling at him that he was gonna get lost, and decides to go after him, Kotori and Hinata hesitating but also coming along.

When they get lost, Miri reassures everyone that she got lost once and ended okay, so they had only to stick with her. Miri grabs a flustered Taiga's hand, saying that he'll come too, and leads them to somewhere else, the other girls following them. Coincidentally, Kazuki and Rei were looking for Miri, Kazauki with a binocular while hiding at the top of a tree. He targets Miri and Taiga who were going somewhere while holding hands, which makes Kazuki assume in shock that he'd might be some boyfriend to Miri (while hallucinating grown Miri and Taiga announcing their relationship), activating his murder intentions and threatens Taiga from afar. Kazuki squeals and misinterprets Taiga's situation while followed by Kotori and Hinata being that Miri was only his "plaything", and wouldn't get away with it.

On their way to search Teacher and the other kids, Taiga takes a rest while complaining how he was tired, but Miri tells him not talking like that, as they needed to get back to Anna. Kazuki realizes that the Taiga kid was the one Miri was explaining about prior to their fight, being "the one Miri supposedly hit", and during this Miri is seen trying to get Taiga off the bench by pulling his wrists. Due to Taiga's "selfishness" (described like that by Hinata) on wanting to take a break, Miri proposes to pause, and drink their own water thermos. The boy accidentally spills some of his water on himself, and Miri goes to wipe it with her handkerchief. While trying to wipe the stain out, Taiga tells her that he was fine, and to cut it out, but Miri declines and to hold still. The two other men find this surprising while Rei comments it being "admirable".

The kids notice a man trying to steal a pile of tubs with food in a stand, and Miri gets in the way while telling that he was gonna beep it. The man attempts to harm the girl, but is stopped by Rei who had thrown a rock on his hand. While keeping looking for Anna, they stumble upon a Morio Kart-themed carousel, which Taiga first recognizes as does Miri. He is surprised that she knew about the game itself, and they were both seen avidly having dialogue about it, mainly admiring Miri's dad, Rei, who always came first in Morio Kart competitions. Taiga is amazed to know Rei also had gotten the platinum parts after beating all the races. On the distance, Hinata and Kotori notice how they have had become friends.

Having already traveled quite a long time, they decide to stop to have their respective lunch. Miri notices in shock she hadn't her own in her bag. Noticing this, Taiga offers some of his food to her and although Miri was in doubt, he only told her to take it, surprising Kotori, Hinata, and Kazuki and Rei from the distance. The girl smiles and celebrates in joy and ultimately thanks him, Taiga also grinning. The two other girls are reluctlant on eating together, fearing that Taiga might steal their food and being mean again, but Miri asks Taiga if he won't do that, to which he agrees, apologizing to Kotori and Hinata while promising he wouldn't do it once more. Miri compliments his rice ball being tasty, receiving a giggle from the boy's part as he responds that his mom's rice balls were the best. Kazuki and Rei give up on giving Miri's lunch back to her, realizing Taiga was actually a pretty cool kid, though the blonde man still didn't accept him as Miri's "BF". However, the two notice the same man had approached to them and grabbed Miri by her her wrist in an attempt to steal her food, but she refused to do it. Taiga intervenes by clinging on the man's arm, forcing him to release the girl from his grasp. Now Taiga was the one on danger, while Miri tries to lecture him that it was bad to be mean, and the old man realizes she was the girl from before, and while she insists him to let Taiga go, she's once again threatened by him while being pointed with a gun. Fortunately, Kazuki and Rei make their appearance inside the zoo mascot costumes (a bunny and an alpaca) and take him down. The children thank and say goodbye to the mascots as the latter leave.

In the end they are found by a worried Anna, and apologize to her except for Taiga, whom had commented he would have been fine, but once again Miri lectures him as he still needed to apologize to the teacher. Following her command, Taiga says sorry to her, and Anna is shocked to know Miri and Taiga had made up. Miri explains in confusion they've always been friends, followed by the boy whom called them "racers", Miri agreeing. Now back home, they're given a note from Anna which explains further about Miri and Taiga's "fight" being actually only the girl trying to stop him from being mean, and her hand had accidentally hit him.

Kazuki realizes his mistake and when Miri goes to him and hugs his leg claiming wanting eat the lunch he made, he apologizes to Miri by carrying her and rubbing his face with hers, saying she didn't do anything wrong.

During Aozora Daycare field day, in one of the events being teacher-and-child tug-of-war, Taiga is placed between Anna and Miri while pulling the rope. They end up winning because Anna had applied too much force and made everyone fall back and the kids compliment her. In the gymnastic formations, Taiga is seen holding Miri and Kotori's hands for the practice. On another formation they're paired together, and Kazuki's cheer ups are slightly decreased every time Taiga was interacting more with Miri, now carrying her with his back while she laughed. Kazuki warns Taiga in anger from afar being "too close" while Rei only repeats "he dies".

On the semi-final event, a race, Miri ends up getting second placed while Taiga was first, receiving a blue (interpreted as platinum) and gold medal respectively, being complimented by their parents. The next competition is a parent-child race too, and this time she ends up winning thanks to Rei accepting to join in to run the three together to the goal.

They're seen standing next to each other while Anna tried to perform Silent Night on piano, and the boy incites mocking to the teacher when she made a mistake while everyone laughed except for Miri. The girl is complimented by amazed children (and also Taiga) after she sings a tiny fragment of Silent Night. On the day of the Christmas Performance, Taiga is placed behind Miri.

Fanon
When season one ended with a grown Miri about to start high school, TaiMiri fans are hoping that Taiga will turn out to be one of her classmates. With susses of the anime providing fans of it hope that there will be a season two. It's also implied Taiga might have a crush on the girl judging by some canon artworks by Buddy Daddies PA Staff in which he tends to do an appearance.

Many fans like their interactions inside Lily's artworks, and also joke about Kazuki and Rei's overprotectiveness towards Miri in order to keep her away from possible future love interests, in this case being Taiga. Their relentness is personified in both of them to the point they frighten the boy, whether intentionally or unintentionally sending death threats to the poor Taiga in fear their kid might leave them and have her eyes centered in her loved one (especially on Kazuki's side). In other words, it's highly likely he won't get Miri's fathers' approval in order to be in a relationship with her.

While it's not one of Miri's most popular ships due to the anime only focusing in the familyship bond between the main three characters, it's considered one between the much lesser romantic pairings on the fandom, the ship entering in the category trope. On AO3 the ship has only 4 works created, being the most written for Taiga.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Official Artwork

 * "All illustrations are from Buddy Daddies PA Staff Lily_20210401"