10 anime · avg brightness 0.458 · dark opening

2006 is Haruhi's year, and Haruhi rewrites the rules. The dark-opening pattern that dominates the year reflects KyoAni's gambit: begin with Haruhi's out-of-order broadcast structure, force the audience to work for the story. The industry watches, and learns. Sunrise's Code Geass adds another data point: you can open on darkness and use it as narrative pressure.