ENA - Power of Potluck

New ENA Plushies right here!! fanga.me/r/ena Hello everyone, this video should have been 40 seconds long, but everything went out of control amidst the process as everyone's already noticed. Enjoy!

I don't know what it is, but ENA seems a lot more sentient in this episode, as if she's out of place in this nonsensical world now. Your mind truly is something Joel.

I genuinely love how everything still remains weird to ENA herself and not to others. Like the ending with the... dog... man... thing. She's really hard trying to comprehend what the hell she is looking at relatable and Moony doesn't even question it.

I only just noticed that right at the beginning you can hear Moony yell “ENA, RUN” after she rings the doorbell and doesn’t move. It’s the perfect foreshadowing to the later gag!

8:40: LMAO THEY CAPTIONED THAT

My theory is that in the previous episode, ENA wished to be more fun (or happy, or something like that), and so her peppy side (yellow) took over her body. Her other side, when kicked out, manifested as the mask. It wasn't possible to get rid of it entirely, so it stayed attached to her. Through her experience in this episode, she learned to accept that her blue side was a part of her, and it's not possible to always be happy and have fun.

Seeing ENA go to therapy and talk out her feelings seems like the resolution of a series-long character arc that we hadn't known was there until now.

the bunny lady is such a neat design concept and the chirping singing voice equally rad.

I love how you can hear Moony telling Ena to run from the door at the beginning. Homegirl went inside and got therapy instead.

I love the symbolism in this one, the way ENA positions herself in the camera to hide her sad side and the literal mask she puts on to hide her sadness.

I love moments where Ena just realizes a lot of things doesn't make sense around her

3:19 I f*cking love how she walks into there backwards

After rewatching, the message hits hard. "Fun is an elusive varmit....but it is never lost forever." As someone who's dealt with stuff regarding emotions, it's REALLY HARD to feel like anything gets better when you get in a rut, but it's so true. Bad things never last forever. Bad feelings don't last forever. It's okay to admit when you feel bad, to not put on a happy mask, but it's also imperative to remember you won't feel bad forever. There's good in the little things.

ENA as a character has been so consistently extra that having her simmer down and describe something as mid feels like a big step forward

ENA seems a lot more emotive now, and more sure of what she does and does not want. Seeing both sides of her essentially have a conversation (blue mask and yellow side of face) was very interesting. I think ENA is amazing, honestly.

I just realized, ENA’s hair is short on one side (the happy side) and long on the other (the sad side). This could symbolize the saying of ‘hair holding memories’. Cutting her hair short on the happy side could mean she is trying out a new start in life and forgetting anything bad that happened in the past, making that side happy. However, leaving her hair long on the sad side could mean that she can’t get rid of any memories of traumatic events or sad events in her life, making that side sad and kinda su!cid@l. It’s just a theory though. A film theory.

LOVED the source engine ragdoll sounds at 8:40 Really brings the whole thing together

Ena goes to the theater, gets therapy instead My thoughts on this episode is that the mask is covering her sad side with a very happy go lucky personality ,it almost acts like a parasite.Ena herself doesn't think and feel this is "real joy",the therapist comments on it saying how exaggerated it is and Ena admits it, destroying the mask so now her sad side is unhidden. Her emotions are unmasked. I love how confused she is here 8:20 / 8:35 , honestly Ena seemed really expressive in this episode and i like it, 3:19 and this powerfull walk

An observation: This is the first ENA video where we follow her from an isometric perspective, as opposed to a first person perspective. It also happens to be an episode where half of her face is literally separated from her body for most of the runtime. While I'm not sure if it was intentional, it lends to the vibe that ENA's quite literally not feeling like herself, as if she's outside of her own body.

the way I interpret it, this is about living with depression and each act is meant to represent common beliefs on how to derive happiness or purpose in life. Act 1: Joy through social connections, love of friends and family Act 2: Joy through exploring the world and learning new things Act 3 and 4: Joy through serving others Act 5, Therapy: Though these things may work for others, continually forcing yourself into them with the expectation that they Should make you happy too will only make you more miserable. Forget about trying to find deeper meaning in nonsense. Instead, find happiness in life’s little moments- hearing your favorite song, eating something delicious, witnessing a sunrise. These are small moments of joy, but they are joy still.