Tomoko Taniguchi(たにぐち智子Taniguchi Tomoko) is a Japanese shōjo manga artist who was born in Hokkaidō, then spent a year in college at Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan. Taniguchi's manga have been published by MB (My Birthday) in Japanese and by CPM Manga in English. She has published 9 volumes of manga total. Her first published manga was Anpan Balance, which won silver at the 4th Omacomi Manga School Contest. Anpan Balance was later released in the manga Let's Stay Together Forever; the title story of that book was her second published story.