Taro Misaki, known in occident as Tom Baker (or Tom Misaki in Latin America), is a very skilled midfielder who with Tsubasa forms the “Golden Combi”. In France, Captain Tsubasa is known as “Olive et Tom”, as if he was one of the two leading characters in the series (the other being Tsubasa). This title is not completly accurate, but it is better suited than “Oliver y Benji”, used in other countries like Spain, where Wakabayashi shares the title with Tsubasa.

Misaki spends his childhood travelling all over Japan with his father, who is a landscape painter. This allows him to play for different schools (such as Meiwa, Furano or Nankatsu) and have many famous teammates, like Hyuga or Matsuyama. Due to his father’s job, he also spends part of his teenage years in France.

He is a very friendly and unselfish player that specializes in assisting his teammates, as his great assist per game number proves (almost a pass that leads to goal per game).