Tanigou Motoaki is the CEO of Cover corp. which owns [[Hololive]] and [[Holostars]]. The "YAGOO" nickname was born from [[Oozora Subaru]] accidentally misreading his surname during a stream (谷 "tani" can be read as "ya").

During the early days of promoting Hololive, he had described Cover Corp's initial vision of their Virtual Idols as more traditional and conventional in behavior (similar to groups like [[AKB48]], according to him).  As Hololive gained in popularity partly due to the talents' behavior not befitting of the traditional idol mold, he frequently became the target of jokes of "having his idol dreams ruined".

h4. External links

* "Twitter":https://twitter.com/tanigox
* "YouTube":https://www.youtube.com/user/tanigox
谷郷元昭 YAGOO