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!

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

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 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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

ITS BEEN 96 YEARS ENA FANS RISE UP

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 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

Its like Joel G decided that poetry, painting and animation were boring so he mixed them together to create ultimate art. And also, spiced it up with gaming. Truly epic.

My interpretation is that after temptation stairway, instead of getting rid of her sad face, she just manages to conceal it on a mask that mimics happiness while literally chewing her depresive antisocial self. She tries to have fun, but fail's to understand what is about. In act I, she doesn't get how funny actions and the amazement you get from them are supposed to give you "fun", on act II she understands that people flow along with that "fun", and while her mask pretends to have fun alongside them, inside she doesn't understand where's the "fun", to her all the expresions remain bored. On act III she becomes the source of "fun" to the audience, showing a funny silhouette while her inside remains dead, and act IV is about how, even though she gets pleasure from the audience's praise, she can't get the fun she's been looking for, finally breaking, her mask no longer concealing her sad side In act V her mask is desperately trying to hide her evident sadness, and once she gets therapy, she destroys her mask and aknowledge that she just can't feel fun. To summarize, I think the mask is a representation of her denying and concealing all her sadness and atempting to live a 100% fun life, but in the process she lost the meaning of what "fun" is supossed to mean. in the end, "fun" trully is precious when it's in balance with sadness, is it's scarcity what gives it it's value. Or perhaps, ENA's weird and has no repair, I'll have to rewatch the video a couple dozen times just in case i missed something. I really love these series. pd: VLIF's dog-horse thing at the end is the first time I hate a character in these series, but seeing ENA makes my day so I don't mind, I hope you keep up with this amazing work

3:20 i love this, it looks so ominous, especially the smile