For the typical anime fan, 2006 was a wholly unremarkable, zero-anxiety, and insanity-free year, at least, as far as the anime industry is concerned. However, for the more discerning anime fans (the ones that don't fall head-over-heels for the newest big-action mind-number to get translated), 2006 was a year fraught with controversy over writers stealing the scripts for shows, executives of anime studios pulling crazy stunts, and other similar incidents. In the anime industry, a year can pass by without being marked by any single show, but some years can sometimes end up being forever remembered for one single production. In the early '90s, it was Hideaki Anno's Shin Seiki Evangelion. It can be argued that 2006 was the year that the industry was introduced to the anime adaptation of Nagaru Tanigawa's series of novels, Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, translated into English as: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
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