Minoru Tachikawa is the Japanese manga artist and writer best known as the original creator of the science fiction comedy series Hyper Police. He is also credited with creating the manga Kotetsu no Daibōken and for providing the original manga for the original video animation The Adventures of Kotetsu. Tachikawa was born on June 24, 1963, in Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan.

Tachikawa is noted for working under the pseudonym MEE. Under this name, he wrote and illustrated the Hyper Police manga, which was serialized in Gekkan Dragon Magazine starting in 1993 and concluded in 2004, spanning a total of ten collected volumes. The series is set in a distant future where humanity is nearly extinct and the population is largely composed of mythological monsters, following the adventures of a young catgirl bounty hunter named Natsuki Sasahara and her colleagues in a private police company. The manga was published in English by Tokyopop.

Tachikawa’s work on Hyper Police was adapted into a twenty-five episode anime television series produced by Studio Pierrot and directed by Takahiro Omori. The anime aired on TV Tokyo from April 3, 1997, to September 25, 1997. While the anime adaptation exists, the original manga series remains his primary credited work as a creator in the industry.