Mikio Tachibana is a Japanese mangaka and a current member of Dynamic Production. His real name is Mikio Hiruta (蛭田 未来雄, ひるた みきお, miruta mikio). He was born in May 11, 1976 in the Saitama Prefecture, Japan. He became the assistant of Go Nagai in 1998 and made his professional debut in January, 2004 with the manga Yakitori Majin-kun for the magazine Comic Bom Bom of Kodansha. In 2005, he started using his current pen name, Mikio Tachibana.