Hideki Taniuchi (タニウチヒデキ, Taniuchi Hideki), born on November 15th in Hokkaido, Japan , is a Japanese musician and composer, best known for his work on composing soundtracks to anime series. Aside from his work as composer, Taniuchi is also playing guitar in the Japanese Rockband Shocking Lemon. In the recent years his popularity was increased due to his works for various anime series, such as Otogizōshi, Akagi, Kaiji and not least due to Death Note.