Care might be a strong word- Phindoll was certainly taken aback and concerned though. As for what ENA thought of it, it might have been a factor in her calming down between that scene and her next. It's hard to tell because honestly I'm not even entirely sure ENA is sentient in the first place. Definitely possible though.
Phindoll was one of the coolest characters imo, he’s one of the only ones that wasn’t mean or agressive towards her-he did hit her, but that was part of the ritual. I really hope we’ll get to see all these other ‘NPCs’ again
Dumb theory: Anyone else notice how fluid ENA's movements become after a while? It's no long stop, turn, walk, stop, look around. It becomes looking around while walking. It reminds me of the process of faking you're fine. Her sad voice speaks with the happy face like the choppy steps of hiding sadness. Also she has to go through a code to get to the next area, like reprogramming yourself.
Just googled this: "In computing, *_RUNAS_* is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively." Huh. Neat.
@@toolazytothinkofausername7407 This. Instead of making games; they should have continued with episodes. ENA was and always will be my most beloved comfort character.
“It looks like I’m the best and you’re the worst! Wonder who got the chest hair.” I just realized that’s a reference to “first the worst, second the best, third the one with a hairy chest”
I'm gonna guess that moony, not having a turron, just fucken fist fought the shepherd to get by, and that might be why she has their shepherd stick? I think that's what that is
That's actually an Easter Egg! In Joel's website. I've been trying to find some myself, but there's 2 elusive ones. One that flashes in the ENA character creator with the cyan and fuschia colors, and some other about a Dance Floor.
Fun fact! The binary code in the captions at 6:09 (“00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000”) translates to 10000. ENA would have had to wait for 10000 years. To be truly honest I don’t know if time applies the same way in the ENA drug-trip induced pixel Picasso realm the same as it does here, in OUR drug-trip induced slightly less pixelly Picasso realm. Is time longer or simply a warped perception of sun positions like us? Do clocks exist there? If yes, then.. yeah ENA. “That’s a lot!”
“Art is made to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” I’ve been an ENA fan for over three years and I’m not exaggerating when I say that this series saved my life.
Revisiting this comment section hoping to find some interesting theories. Haven't found one yet, it's everyone pointing out the Finish the Job quote as if the other dozens of comments aren't talking about it (tbf, it's my favorite quote, but still)
I feel like if we ended up in a future where everyone's immortal minds get stuck in a VR world where you can literally create anything but the concept quickly becomes pointless, this would be the kind of world made. Just an endless universe of realms rooms and voids created by individual minds on a whim, so vast that there no longer remains a place where more than a few people at a time can get together because literally everyone is either in their own created world or endlessly wandering (or trapped) in someone else's. In such a world, ena and the moon chick just feel like two beings who randomly found each other and just spend their time roaming these endless planes of existence, their minds slowly continuing to decay due to the potent mix of total isolation and sensory overload from the strange worlds they head through, and wacky characters they talk to.
Standout things from this animation: -This Ena switches between a male & female voice at seemingly random instead Happy speaking with a male voice and Sad speaking with a Sad voice. The text boxes noticeably refer to this Ena with a reversed E, and The Shepard says "Another Ena troublemaker", implying that there are multiple Enas. We also see some Ena corpses flickering into the mannequin bodies at one point. Third, at the end we see Ena's sad half turn from blue to yellow over the course of Ena & Moony's conversation. My personal theory is that this Ena is possibly 'broken' in some manner. -Moony either doesn't care or dosen't realize that Ena's voices aren't matching the personalities anymore. -The grey personality appears to come out when Ena gets too stressed out. Notably the transformation involves the happy half turning into static and exploding out, erasing Ena's face in the process. It also appears that some physical trauma (in this case, Brick Frog kicking Ena) is necessary to exit the grey personality, unlike the previously seen 'blackout' personalities which can possibly be switched by the other personality exerting themselves (in the auction episode, Ena enters her sad blackout/depressed personality, then switches to Happy!Ena, who apologizes to Moony about her depressed outburst). -Moony's hole is capable of closing to hold things, and she also knows how to skateboard. -Judging by Ena's reaction, Moony's transformation at the end is weird even by this universe's standards.
Idk if I’m overthinking or anything but the grey version of Ena also could look like a mannequin- maybe the mannequins and the grey version could mean something-? Idk but I’d just like to point it out now that you mention this theory 👀
I think the reason why the blue side of her turned yellow is that her wish was for it to be gone. During the series, she would often apologize or try to excuse herself after an outburst, so she probably feels very insecure and shameful because of it.
@@vantablack8468 But did she ever get to make her wish? It was Moony who meet the Great Runas and got her wish. Ena never actually spoke with the Great Runas, Moony stopped her before she reached their chambers.
I was expecting gray ena to be emotionless, but instead she's the most emotionally overwhelmed and cannot form words- I believe she's gray because she can't even distinguish how she's feeling, she's just shutting down
I feel like ENA lives in an old, outdated, and unused computer where data and files are free to roam anywhere within the computer. I also feel like maybe this computer was damaged and there for no longer in use, and allows for what I previously mentioned.
Reboot was this concept to a T, minus the fact that the computer is actually used to play games regularly. But yeah Ena wears its references on its sleeves
@@genericgorilla I think she is a hi tech japanese servant bot considering how perfectly nice she is, except a bit broken considering her mood switching.
I actually have a feeling that ENA is a virus, which is why the shepherd said "another ENA troublemaker," and at 9:07 we actually see some of the other ENAs broken into bits and pieces and glitching out in the sea of code. Just a theory though lol
ive been thinking about this, and i think maybe that since she was in such a state of agony, the sadness fully took over not just become the dominant half, but her happy side literally blew up and there was no division in her, and she was so engrossed in her suffering that it was like she BECAME it (face=identity, her face on her hands covering her now blank face in pain) as for the gray color, maybe since it's black+white (two sides of her face when she experiences extreme emotion), or maybe she's "muting" her other side or ability to function normally, whether by choice or by being overwhelmed edit: upon further viewing (and listening) it seems like the arms run away as well
it seems like a pretty textbook panic attack to me.. albeit with the usual surreal weird crap idk i dont see it as all that different from the rest of the ena stuff
@@jasnifur2014But you can hear a faint voice that says "Pain, pain pain!" while hes doing that. Plus it has the same graphic as when Phindol threw a hit. In addition to Ena saying "Why is everyone punching me so softly today?!" Implying there was another attempt.
Ena: **Having a mental breakdown and identity crisis** Also Ena After Being Kicked in the Face Several Times by a Frog: *ay were having some pretty good weather today ngl*
i like how the sides and voices altercate within each other. now you dont need sides or voices to tell how ena feels, you need to pay attention to how she acts
I realized that Ena's "E" in her name when she receives any item is backwards, also when she gives the turron. But there's also definitely multiple Ena's so idk
oh! joel g almost named the series ƎNA and the only reason he decided against it was because ƎNA is annoying to look up so i'm guesssing Ǝna is her like, real name
My theory is that ENA is not a gamer, judging by the fact that nearly all the movements through the world are "walk, stop, turn, walk" as if they aren't comfortable with doing both at once, which is not very gamer like. Thus ENA isn't in fact a gamer.
Have you ever heard of a certain person called Dean Takahashi, y'know, the dude who gave cuphead a bad metacritic score because he couldn't figure out how to jump and dash, or move and shoot at the same time.
Nnnotttttt really. I assume you may be talking about the Temptation Stairway remix? It’s made by Cotiles. They used this audio clip (“I wanna go home, I don’t like this pawty, I’m awergic to people”), “That’s a lot!” , “noooOOOOOoooooOOO” ,“dearest chum, inquire how your physical form”, “it looks like I’m the best and you’re the worst!”, etc in the remix. It’s really good!
I really like how the two voice actors co-operate on ENA's line at 12:28 Lizzie exhales a pout at the end of her line and Gabe precedes his own with an inhale to convince the two voices as mere tonal shifts sharing the same breath. Good vocal trick.
Someone here pointed out that the rude way some characters have spoken to Ena (sans Moony) suggests that she's not unique, but rather a type of being in that world. If this is true, does this tie into how Ena keeps "breaking down" and glitching? So far she's the only one who does it seemingly unintentionally (Moony at the end wasn't glitching so much as she was like, hatching or having lipo IDK), and it seems she keeps getting worse, although due to the rules of the world it's hard to say. The frog had to punch her out of that new gray form and she rebooted herself, Phindoll was noticeably taken aback by the violent outburst of her sad white form, too. Plus at the end, she was slowly turning fully yellow. Which leads to my theory: Is Ena a robot/android of some sort? Or is her unstable mind and body a staple of her kind, and if that's so, is that why others look down upon her? *Edit:* WAIT ANOTHER THING I NOTICED: The broken down Enas at the room after Shepherd's briefly glitch into the same mannequins that appear at the start, outside Runa's walking world. Maybe this could be further proof Ena really is just a type of being that the rest regard as expendable/simple?
Assuming that this is a virtual world, she is more likely to be a program. A glitchy one. Maybe virus, as we see that she is but many. Probably these events were attempts of a firewall to get rid of her and/or Moony. Like, they wanted to Run As, meaning they wanted full control of a system. I bet there is some hystorical virus that sounds like the names of the main characters.
By the looked of it, the broken down enas are a single colour plus they flicker into being the default human model. Its possible ENA is a skin over such a blank avatar - further reinforcing the 'sentient chat world' theory
Nobody's talking about how ENA's textures change for a split second every time the shepherd hits her, and idk I think it's a funny little detail. Like... ENA is just standing there taking the hits, and her only response is just a brief texture change. I just love that sequence lmao
The fucking disapproving head shake. I also like that when she shakes her head, her entire face goes yellow, which from what I can tell means that ENA is 100% disappointed in her friend and is completely confident in her disappointment.
When she goes grey it's because the happy voice is speaking but it's the depressed side shown,if you slow it down enough you see yellow gets ripped out via static,the hands are the depressed side,happy side,drunk side and sad side,just grey blank
I keep coming back to these videos and I keep getting a weird sense of nostalgia that reminds me of programming and scripting of 90’s and 00’s games and software. Maybe that’s the idea behind these of Joel’s just making strange but passionate art with his animations and videos. Either way, will always come back to rewatch these videos.
15:31 Sad ƏNA: Heh, it looks like I'm the best and you're the worst! ...Wonder who got the chest hair... Happy ƏNA, in a very nonchalant voice: Where are we, anyways?
I hate how no one else is talking about Ulysses. I love his character design and I feel like what he says isn’t even considered for theories. He seems to only give Ena the option to leave once she mentions her bet with Moony. The music also begins to fade as he talks about her failing “like the rest of them” which to me seems like a very clear indicator that he has also encountered multiple Enas just like the Shepherd. This also brings up something strange: How are these others getting into the Great Runas? I assume the goal is to beat Runas to the standing figure before time runs out, and Ena appeared there after failing the challenge by a small margin allowing her to be taken in. If the other Enas were already in Runas, this has to mean other Enas were present for previous Runas parties and all failed as well. Does this mean a few inevitably succeeded? And if Runas parties only happen every few years, how far in the past do these other Enas originate from? “Desires are never quenched” is also something to take into consideration. If he means that Runas wishes don’t grant what the wisher truly wants, then why did Moony’s wish to be thinner get granted? Perhaps her wish to be thinner wasn’t granted how she wished, as she ended up hatching into an entirely new entity.
I'd like to add that when he speaks he seems to be luring and warding ENA away simultaneously. Almost like he has to let her through but fears what will happen within. But he presumably hasn't been through the Holy Code so how does he know they failed?
Okay so weird detail: When Ena talks about the Turron, both as she is talking to the Spanish guy and when she later talks to the shepherd, she does a dance from the music video for “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads. The song is basically about existential dread and how things go by too quickly to the point of madness. Maybe Ena’s going through the same stuff... or she has really good taste in music. Idk.
I'd think that its going through the same stuff, seeing as how immediately after recieving the turron, she realizes she wasted all of her time to get her wish.
Me and a lot of other people think that every Ena we see in each episode is a different one as they all act differently we even see the other glitched out Ena’s glitching and becoming mannequins
At 6:10, when Ulysses says "years", if you turn on the captions, you get a binary code of: 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 If you translate this, you get 10,000 Therefore the next celebration is 10,000 years later
Hang on, I just realized something. Moony's wording about the bet is so... backwards? "Whoever reaches the top of the Great Runas and makes their wish first _has to pay the debts of the loser._ " Moony got her wish first. Moony had to pay the debts of the _loser._ ENA is the loser. Moony paid ENA's debts. ENA's sad side disappeared. _"It's a proper punishment."_ _"PUNISHMENT IS IMMINENT!"_ _"You will fail--just like the rest of them."_ Was that ENA's debt? How did Moony pay it? Did Moony plan this? She deflected when ENA asked her how she got there so fast. She was probably behind ENA for a hot minute, since we never see her and she has the Shepherd's staff stuck in her moon-square...
near the end Moony says "btw, Runas doesn't look all that handsome in person, and you're thinking of Moony being behind Ena the whole time, but hang on didn't Ena see the great runas? 👀
This feels like it should be some old animation from like 9 years ago that you find in your recommendations randomly at 3am
In 9 years it will be
@@LzKal true
@@Saldotz yea
guess what. It’s a game.
U can download it
“WHY IS EVERYONE PUNCHING ME SO SOFTLY TODAY?!“
*”QUIT THE HITTING AND FINISH THE JOB!”*
What kills me is that it sounds like the happy voice is the one screaming for someone to finish the job
The captions says punching instead of touching
@@upumpkin *then that sounds VERY wrong in many different ways.*
@@OrderOTCB Lmao I'm pretty sure it is! 😂😂😂
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excuse me what
Ena: *having a mental breakdown*
Moony: “Check out these sick moves!”
ok
With how often ENA has one of those, not even I would bat an eye in her place tbh.
TONY HAWK PRO SKATER BAYBEEEEEE
@@moldybread3081 PLEASEEE
I literally thought Sad Ena is dying- 😭
Sad ENA's VA is underrated, she delivers every line with the perfect amount of anguish in her voice
WAIT IS IT LIZZIE?
@@editz_val yea it says it in the description
Underrated? She's the voice of the main character in The Amazing Digital Circus.
@@newguy371 I mean Lizzie isn’t underrated bc of Pomni from tadc, but Griffin ( the va of her yellow side ) is.
@@newguy371 I stand corrected
I really like how Phindoll reacted to ENA's outburst - with care. How he didn't mean to upset her. I wonder what ENA thought of his words
Care might be a strong word- Phindoll was certainly taken aback and concerned though. As for what ENA thought of it, it might have been a factor in her calming down between that scene and her next. It's hard to tell because honestly I'm not even entirely sure ENA is sentient in the first place. Definitely possible though.
Phindoll was one of the coolest characters imo, he’s one of the only ones that wasn’t mean or agressive towards her-he did hit her, but that was part of the ritual. I really hope we’ll get to see all these other ‘NPCs’ again
@@poweroftheztars I mean he skipped an initial ritual after her outburst which is quite nice.
Yeah
@Maple Considering the reaction he didn’t even hit ENA that hard
Dumb theory: Anyone else notice how fluid ENA's movements become after a while? It's no long stop, turn, walk, stop, look around. It becomes looking around while walking. It reminds me of the process of faking you're fine. Her sad voice speaks with the happy face like the choppy steps of hiding sadness. Also she has to go through a code to get to the next area, like reprogramming yourself.
I hope it made sense
I really liked her quirk of changin voice with changing moods
now it just feel random
I mean, at the end, her blue side begins to turn yellow, so you might be onto something
Someone ruin the 399
Yo this ain't dumb, this actually makes a lot of sense.
Just googled this:
"In computing, *_RUNAS_* is a command in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems that allows a user to run specific tools and programs under a different username to the one that was used to logon to a computer interactively."
Huh. Neat.
Ah, I guess it's "run as" in that context, but would be pronounced "runas" without the context
Explains why everyone is trying to get there and why it can grant wishes.
And I just realized it pronounced as, "Run as.."
This LSD trip is sponsored by Runas VPN
Couple with the "holy code," maybe the world of Ena is in a computer. Not a simulation, but a computer
I can't belive temptation stairway was 3 years ago. Times go by so quickly
I Remember the hype like it was yesterday!
I remember all of the ENA hype it had, kinda sad to see the fandom is kinda dead now
@@toolazytothinkofausername7407
This. Instead of making games; they should have continued with episodes.
ENA was and always will be my most beloved comfort character.
@@a-sheep-of-christbtw have they still not announced the release date?
@@markusTegelane Not yet
the dialogue is so strange i love it! sounds like its trying to replicate the voices from those old point and click games like pajama sam
Woah dang u got a point
I really like the style and especially music from this vid. Same with yours. But this is better tbh
Feet reveal
@@hedgehog8245 wtf why lol
@@Mojodoesntsweat i want to see if ENA has polygon gibblets
The way “take a Chill Pill, I meant no Ill Will” is delivered just Makes the dolphin
Definitely gonna use that phrase. Thanks dolphin dude
Here's the new prescription is just the perfect followup too
i'm gonna start greeting people with "what's the data theta" it's so fun to say
_Who tf invented that phrase?_
Please translate these idiomatic expressions into an English comprehension in which I am able to understand
“It looks like I’m the best and you’re the worst! Wonder who got the chest hair.”
I just realized that’s a reference to “first the worst, second the best, third the one with a hairy chest”
Really? When I was a kid, it was "Zero the hero, first the worst, second the best, third the girl in the polka dot dress"
So weird how sayings evolve
i've literally never heard either of these sayings before and don't know what you two are talking about
@@omegaotaku1342 Me neither. I almost thought that they both wanted to wish for a chesthair or something.
And fourth is the one with the polka dot dress
Edit: I put chest instead of dress-
@@PerplexedPBJ nah 4th the one with the golden gun
This is like Dante's Inferno after lobotomy, 5 beers, 30 minutes of sleep and drugs
So regular danteds inferno
@@wafflestcattash4818 More or less. Maybe Dante slept more
Nah that's Ultrakill
my name is ena
@@Sofia-v6r8fhi Ena
I'm gonna guess that moony, not having a turron, just fucken fist fought the shepherd to get by, and that might be why she has their shepherd stick? I think that's what that is
thats actually pretty funny lol :)
Rip shepherd then, lmao..
@@pepperoniislices GOD LMAO
It’s canon now
Lmao probably
"Well, how much longer for the next celebration?"
------- "Years."
"T H A T ' S A L O T."
I think the binary in captions say 10000
@@sfericzox2932 ohhh, really? I didn't know the video has captions! Thanks for telling me!
MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD
That's actually an Easter Egg! In Joel's website. I've been trying to find some myself, but there's 2 elusive ones. One that flashes in the ENA character creator with the cyan and fuschia colors, and some other about a Dance Floor.
Salot 🤨 ohh your saying ‘Salot! I’m so silly 😝haha funni
"I keep hearing voices inside my head... THEY TELL ME TO EAT MY VEGGIES!"
T U R R O N
No, just eat a... *T U R R Ō N*
no veggies, only TURRŌN
Ah the horor
*_T U R R Ō N_*
Fun fact! The binary code in the captions at 6:09 (“00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000”) translates to 10000. ENA would have had to wait for 10000 years. To be truly honest I don’t know if time applies the same way in the ENA drug-trip induced pixel Picasso realm the same as it does here, in OUR drug-trip induced slightly less pixelly Picasso realm. Is time longer or simply a warped perception of sun positions like us? Do clocks exist there? If yes, then.. yeah ENA. “That’s a lot!”
Ena: *starts sobbing, vomits and asks for someone to kill her*
Moony: lmao anyways you wanna race
Why does the guy that always says yes literally sounds like the character from the Zelda CDI game that is my boy
yeah me too
Time stamp?
they asked for their suffering to end, and then they turned yellow
Almost exactly what Cian Delany said...
I like how the Shepard is willing to break the fabric of their world because ENA has a turron
Heck, I'd consider it. They're pretty dang tasty.
El turrón es muy poderoso
T U R R Õ N
I've never hd a Turron in my life-
I'VE BEEN LIVING A LIE-
@@probes-arealone T U R R Õ N!
ENA: **sad and depressed and talking about vegetables**
Moony: I’m just going to ignore that
egg
Egg
@@scooter_boy Why are ya commenting egg on everything lmao
Same here ENA, Same
if you’ve noticed, Moony always ignores Ena whenever she’s sad. its quite weird and disturbing
Is it just me, or is this series oddly comforting?
Edit: The phrase “Art is meant to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comforted” comes to mind
Now I think about it you are sorta right
It is though-
“Art is made to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
I’ve been an ENA fan for over three years and I’m not exaggerating when I say that this series saved my life.
Bill Wurtz vibes, amirite?
@@itsonlyzaq Both have that kind of late 90's / early 2000's internet style going for them
Temptation Stairway Trailer Comments: *Long theories about Ena's sides combining*
Actual Temptation Stairway Comments: T U R R O N
Thats what you get for using logics in this series
TURRON
Revisiting this comment section hoping to find some interesting theories. Haven't found one yet, it's everyone pointing out the Finish the Job quote as if the other dozens of comments aren't talking about it (tbf, it's my favorite quote, but still)
TURROH
Wdym, The Turron man is my Spirit animal
I like how the most sane Ena character is a low poly pink dolphin with the personality of a 90s surfer dude
Lol kind of true atm
You know why camels don’t do professional wrestling?
Because they wOOOaAAoWwWWWOOOoOwWWeAWWoOOwAA!
Ha! That’s dolphin humor for ya!
TAKE A CHILL PILL I MEANT TO ILL WILL
@@ZGZG33 I'm sorry but you say to instead of no. Not to be that person, but yes.
@@hanin_gurl Yeah I didn't catch any of that, what?
"Take a chill pill, I meant no ill will" is a pretty great line.
i was JUST about to comment that
"What's the data, theta?" was a good line too
The fact the Dolphin changed it's mind on the fist fight after seeing Ena's reaction just goes to show how nice of a person the Dolphin is.
El no esta enfermo
@@tomatecherry1399 huh?
話の内容はあんまり分からないけどこの不思議な世界観に引き込まれる
I don't think anyone understands this. But I hope you keep watching.
Same here
The mysterious lobotomy confusing ones are always the most entertaining.. i think I get why handa kun was so popular now
@@ruuha35 それな
moony: "i wished to be thinner"
ena: *visibly disturbed*
“CHEESE AND RICE MOONY”
I would wish to be thiccer
ive tried to imagine myself thin. it dont look right
@@Jaythetransgremlin i suppose the life of a meatball is appealing to some.
@@doctorsmiles4530 Ouch, wow. Endomorphs exist you know. And preferences too, I can’t tell which one you’re insulting (sorry if it’s a joke)
"They tell me to eat my veggies"
what type of demon would haunt a innocent soul like that,this is absolutely barbarian
I like veggies...
@@ivyhealthcare5688 YOU ARE THE DEMON!
@@arsdago8121 but they're nice.....
@Ramiro panda UwU well fuk
vegetoid is doing that
I feel like if we ended up in a future where everyone's immortal minds get stuck in a VR world where you can literally create anything but the concept quickly becomes pointless, this would be the kind of world made.
Just an endless universe of realms rooms and voids created by individual minds on a whim, so vast that there no longer remains a place where more than a few people at a time can get together because literally everyone is either in their own created world or endlessly wandering (or trapped) in someone else's.
In such a world, ena and the moon chick just feel like two beings who randomly found each other and just spend their time roaming these endless planes of existence, their minds slowly continuing to decay due to the potent mix of total isolation and sensory overload from the strange worlds they head through, and wacky characters they talk to.
This is such a well written/thought out concept, I love this interpretation!!
Yea agree on ya that sound something out of cartoon or adult cartoon
It could be a fourth dimensional planet where random species live together
Sounds like Limbo to me.
Hypnospace vibes
I just found out shepherd's a Picasso reference that just makes her even cooler.
your pfp makes it even better lol
ENA is too it’s based on a painting called “girl before a mirror”
Could shepherd be an ene tho ❓🤔
Standout things from this animation:
-This Ena switches between a male & female voice at seemingly random instead Happy speaking with a male voice and Sad speaking with a Sad voice. The text boxes noticeably refer to this Ena with a reversed E, and The Shepard says "Another Ena troublemaker", implying that there are multiple Enas. We also see some Ena corpses flickering into the mannequin bodies at one point. Third, at the end we see Ena's sad half turn from blue to yellow over the course of Ena & Moony's conversation. My personal theory is that this Ena is possibly 'broken' in some manner.
-Moony either doesn't care or dosen't realize that Ena's voices aren't matching the personalities anymore.
-The grey personality appears to come out when Ena gets too stressed out. Notably the transformation involves the happy half turning into static and exploding out, erasing Ena's face in the process. It also appears that some physical trauma (in this case, Brick Frog kicking Ena) is necessary to exit the grey personality, unlike the previously seen 'blackout' personalities which can possibly be switched by the other personality exerting themselves (in the auction episode, Ena enters her sad blackout/depressed personality, then switches to Happy!Ena, who apologizes to Moony about her depressed outburst).
-Moony's hole is capable of closing to hold things, and she also knows how to skateboard.
-Judging by Ena's reaction, Moony's transformation at the end is weird even by this universe's standards.
Also, at the end, moony's hole thing has Shepard's staff in it.
Idk if I’m overthinking or anything but the grey version of Ena also could look like a mannequin- maybe the mannequins and the grey version could mean something-? Idk but I’d just like to point it out now that you mention this theory 👀
I think the reason why the blue side of her turned yellow is that her wish was for it to be gone. During the series, she would often apologize or try to excuse herself after an outburst, so she probably feels very insecure and shameful because of it.
@@vantablack8468 OH FUCK THAT KINDA HURTS HOLY SHIT
@@vantablack8468 But did she ever get to make her wish? It was Moony who meet the Great Runas and got her wish. Ena never actually spoke with the Great Runas, Moony stopped her before she reached their chambers.
I was expecting gray ena to be emotionless, but instead she's the most emotionally overwhelmed and cannot form words- I believe she's gray because she can't even distinguish how she's feeling, she's just shutting down
I think its called a mental breakdown
mood
Thats why se has Emotional Disorder and a case of wijsmijmjqminsuuhgushiudjoiidiidjoijdoijdikriorkoik.
I think the same.
A Grand & Intoxicating sort of madness.
This is so much creepier and weird... i love it
egg
hey look the anime dude is here
also yes i feel confused and it feels like im in some sort of weird dream
Y e s
Even I wasn't prepared for such madness
What have I stumbled onto here?
It’s all so weird, yet I can’t look away.
Welcome lil bro
Picasso's mindscape
Wait these characters are made from Picasso's paintings!?
Btw are we not gonna talk abt the green haired man wearing a pink dress-?
@@Cassandral10g08I sobbed 😭😭🗿
Ena: *sobbing*
Moony: *"smells like i'll finally be able to make my wish!"*
moony smells the tears of people
*smells like ENAs tears*
I do wonder why Moony never seems to change heart upon ENA’s mental breakdowns.
@@iiiamsushiii *she feeds of enas pain*
@@iiiamsushiii Maybe she’s just used to it and doesn’t really care anymore
I feel like ENA lives in an old, outdated, and unused computer where data and files are free to roam anywhere within the computer. I also feel like maybe this computer was damaged and there for no longer in use, and allows for what I previously mentioned.
Reboot was this concept to a T, minus the fact that the computer is actually used to play games regularly. But yeah Ena wears its references on its sleeves
@@genericgorilla I think she is a hi tech japanese servant bot considering how perfectly nice she is, except a bit broken considering her mood switching.
Probably not true, cuz moony said "BO! Gimme your lunch money!"
I actually have a feeling that ENA is a virus, which is why the shepherd said "another ENA troublemaker," and at 9:07 we actually see some of the other ENAs broken into bits and pieces and glitching out in the sea of code. Just a theory though lol
I love how traumatized ENA looks when she saw shinny Moony. Nothing she saw today was as cursed as that-
even a PS1 rhythm game protagonist has standards
*CHEESE AND RICE, MOONY*
cheese-and-rise, moony!
Ena go 0---0
ena's blue half turned yellow 😳
I’m sorry the way Ena said ‘CHEESE AND RICE MOONY’ caught me off guard😭😭
i misheard it as jesus crist moony
That was the point@@johannabranttherain
16:09 LOL
Is anyone gonna talk about how ENA quite literally broke herself in the beggining? That gray ENA was not normal, even for her.
ENA.exe has stopped responding.
ive been thinking about this, and i think maybe that since she was in such a state of agony, the sadness fully took over
not just become the dominant half, but her happy side literally blew up and there was no division in her, and she was so engrossed in her suffering that it was like she BECAME it (face=identity, her face on her hands covering her now blank face in pain)
as for the gray color, maybe since it's black+white (two sides of her face when she experiences extreme emotion), or maybe she's "muting" her other side or ability to function normally, whether by choice or by being overwhelmed
edit: upon further viewing (and listening) it seems like the arms run away as well
also, this could be related to those other sides of Ena we saw in extinction party when she was drunk, this being the opposite of that perhaps
i’d say it’s a representation of sensory overload
it seems like a pretty textbook panic attack to me.. albeit with the usual surreal weird crap
idk i dont see it as all that different from the rest of the ena stuff
10:38
"Drink the blood and smoke the banana, yes"
Gabo is now my favorite character
i’m at 5:13
6:50
8:38
Lololol
*YES.*
"WHAT THE HELL, this doesn't taste anything like you-"
*"YOU'RE ALL LIVING A L I E"*
"Oh....well I guess you can pass"
"but I still don't like you"
This is how to break into someones house without hurting them: *"YOUR ALL LIVING A LIE"*
The way ena moved made me feel things and now I'm uncomfortable
@@sinkdemon5813 honestly same
Yeah that was really weird
(also it’s “you’re” not “your”. “You’re” is short for you are and “your” is used to describe possession.)
I love how they took inspiration from the master's voicelines from fallout 1 to create Ulysses
"WHY IS EVERYONE PUNCHING ME SO SOFTLY TODAY? *QUIT THE HITTING AND FINISH THE JOB!"*
probably my favorite line before “YOURE ALL LIVING A LIE!”
“Take a chill pill, I didn’t mean no ill will”
there's so many gold lines in this video
*Turrón*
@xLemarie "Here's the new prescription: no initial interview for you."
Ena: having a mental breakdown
Frog: kicks ena 1500 times
Ena: *woah nice weather*
Fr
WHERE IS THAT TIMR STAMP I NEEF IT
I think he was kicking the other people
Ena said she's allergic to people
Lol
@@jasnifur2014But you can hear a faint voice that says "Pain, pain pain!" while hes doing that.
Plus it has the same graphic as when Phindol threw a hit.
In addition to Ena saying "Why is everyone punching me so softly today?!" Implying there was another attempt.
ENA is that kind of person you look at and instantly want to draw them
I would but I’m uncomfortable drawing females (at least not in my normal art style)
Agreed
Right I already just did
I did in school today
ABSOLUTELY
I will never be able to fully understand this, but I enjoy rewatching ENA
Ena: **Having a mental breakdown and identity crisis**
Also Ena After Being Kicked in the Face Several Times by a Frog: *ay were having some pretty good weather today ngl*
Xdd
@@finley390 ∃NA: *Everything here is so weird*
LOL
Me In A Nutshell
Good weather, yes
I like how they're like, not really talking to each other. They're just saying shit.
Lol
wdym?
Ok.
Sauce for PFP?
@@gachatumor8054 what the fuc-
ENA: *pukes, begs for death, has a mental breakdown and starts sobbing uncontrollably*
Moony: 🙄
Moony reminds me of the populer girl in my school when that scene happened.
Mooney: 🌚
"At least ask first!"
Moony: 🙄👆
Moony is kind of mean to Ena tbh like she litterly suffers all the time and she just ignores her...
i like how the sides and voices altercate within each other. now you dont need sides or voices to tell how ena feels, you need to pay attention to how she acts
I realized that Ena's "E" in her name when she receives any item is backwards, also when she gives the turron. But there's also definitely multiple Ena's so idk
oh! joel g almost named the series ƎNA and the only reason he decided against it was because ƎNA is annoying to look up so i'm guesssing Ǝna is her like, real name
I thought the E in her name turned into a 3 😭✋
very interesting observation
“years”
“tHAT’s A LOT.”
The closed captions say something in binary at that point
00000001010001011011101010111000101001110100101 years
@@xenoncase which is ASCII for "10000"
The captions say 00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000 years
Welp, Ena’s not wrong
My theory is that ENA is not a gamer, judging by the fact that nearly all the movements through the world are "walk, stop, turn, walk" as if they aren't comfortable with doing both at once, which is not very gamer like.
Thus ENA isn't in fact a gamer.
Nah ENA is just playing with keyboard only you know how hard it is to move consistently with just that?
ena gamer sounds pretty cool tho but i agree with this
they be walking like they have no mouse
Have you ever heard of a certain person called Dean Takahashi, y'know, the dude who gave cuphead a bad metacritic score because he couldn't figure out how to jump and dash, or move and shoot at the same time.
Most plausible theory yet
0:13 so *THATS* where that meme came from..
Edit: wowowow!! 242 likes! Thx!
EXACTLY MY FIRST WORDS WHEN I SAW THIS
Nnnotttttt really. I assume you may be talking about the Temptation Stairway remix? It’s made by Cotiles. They used this audio clip (“I wanna go home, I don’t like this pawty, I’m awergic to people”), “That’s a lot!” , “noooOOOOOoooooOOO” ,“dearest chum, inquire how your physical form”, “it looks like I’m the best and you’re the worst!”, etc in the remix. It’s really good!
@@Ace0fHeartzX3 I think so?
it baffles me how some people haven’t seen this video first and then the meme
@@moojuice9614 yeah my friend tried to get me to watch it before the meme and it's so good, I shouldve!
I KNEW Pelo voiced the merchant while he was speaking, even before his laugh gave it way!
Which one is that?
The three masks, I think? They speak Spanish, I believe
BRUH I DIDNT NOTICE THAT
Lol, I usually never read the credita, but then I have to see Sr Pelo name there xd
@@MarsaThing Its spanish with a very stereotypical mexican accent, Pelo does this accent a lot actually.
I really like how the two voice actors co-operate on ENA's line at 12:28
Lizzie exhales a pout at the end of her line and Gabe precedes his own with an inhale to convince the two voices as mere tonal shifts sharing the same breath. Good vocal trick.
WOAH, that is cool!
@Pai de Whatsapp no, it's two different voice actors lol
Holy cow! I didn't notice that! Genius!
lizzie is meggy's voice actress in smg4 too
@Pai de Whatsapp 💀
5:38 I _adore_ this thing's design and voices. Plus, they mess around with my headphones, which is cool
It's my favorite part of the video!
Oh man wait til you find out about Lord Farquaad
@@Snoozemeister I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING ANJSJSBDJDH
he kinda reminds me of spamton
Reminds me a lot of The Master from the original fallout with the multiple voices
Hearing Lizzie Freeman say all this is hilarious when you consider the fact she voices Pomni now
Phindoll: “DO YOU KNOW WHY CAMELS DON’T DO PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING? BECAUSE THEY-“
*Goes into the 8th dimension*
i just screamed laughing at this
My favourite character
PhinDoll seems like a great friend
That's dolphin humour for ya
Hey, don't make fun of his 8th dimensional voice
Someone here pointed out that the rude way some characters have spoken to Ena (sans Moony) suggests that she's not unique, but rather a type of being in that world. If this is true, does this tie into how Ena keeps "breaking down" and glitching? So far she's the only one who does it seemingly unintentionally (Moony at the end wasn't glitching so much as she was like, hatching or having lipo IDK), and it seems she keeps getting worse, although due to the rules of the world it's hard to say.
The frog had to punch her out of that new gray form and she rebooted herself, Phindoll was noticeably taken aback by the violent outburst of her sad white form, too. Plus at the end, she was slowly turning fully yellow.
Which leads to my theory: Is Ena a robot/android of some sort? Or is her unstable mind and body a staple of her kind, and if that's so, is that why others look down upon her?
*Edit:* WAIT ANOTHER THING I NOTICED: The broken down Enas at the room after Shepherd's briefly glitch into the same mannequins that appear at the start, outside Runa's walking world. Maybe this could be further proof Ena really is just a type of being that the rest regard as expendable/simple?
Nice theory!
Assuming that this is a virtual world, she is more likely to be a program. A glitchy one. Maybe virus, as we see that she is but many. Probably these events were attempts of a firewall to get rid of her and/or Moony. Like, they wanted to Run As, meaning they wanted full control of a system. I bet there is some hystorical virus that sounds like the names of the main characters.
'Your exterior is not up to our communities typical standards.'
By the looked of it, the broken down enas are a single colour plus they flicker into being the default human model. Its possible ENA is a skin over such a blank avatar - further reinforcing the 'sentient chat world' theory
there’s also the fact that the Shepard days “another ENA troublemaker”! i think there definitely a good chance of there being multiple ENAs
The amount of times I’ve rewatched this- I didn’t know I could find such comfort in something so strange
same, it's weirdly comforting, watching this
I find it extremely confusing
I can’t stop watching episodes again and again is it normal 😭😂
Ah yes, a fellow Unus
Same
8:40 the shepards voice got soft and it was soothing IDK WHY HELP
Nobody's talking about how ENA's textures change for a split second every time the shepherd hits her, and idk I think it's a funny little detail. Like... ENA is just standing there taking the hits, and her only response is just a brief texture change. I just love that sequence lmao
Haha Picasso painting go bonk
Haha Picasso painting go bonk
Haha Picasso painting go bonk
Haha Picasso painting go bonk
Haha Picasso painting go bonk
ENA: YOU ARE ALL LIVING A 𝙇𝙄𝙀!
- awkward silence -
"oh."
maybe i am living a lie, *grabs knife*
@@tetraploid5000 wAit nO-
@@abanana2809 *dies*
@@tetraploid5000 𝙉𝙤𝙊𝙊𝙤𝙊𝙊𝙤𝙤𝙤-
This series can go from unsettling and surreal to comedic real fast and it’s great.
Its pretty much all of those at once at some points
Yup
Is this series only here on UA-cam or is there more that I'm too dumb to find
@@sarahbarabe8470 no its only on youtube
I like how sometimes Moony and Ena don’t even really respond to each other, they just speak
The fucking disapproving head shake. I also like that when she shakes her head, her entire face goes yellow, which from what I can tell means that ENA is 100% disappointed in her friend and is completely confident in her disappointment.
100% disappointed Reached >:
Perfect amount of likes
I laughed way too hard at this comment 💀
16:05 here
When she goes grey it's because the happy voice is speaking but it's the depressed side shown,if you slow it down enough you see yellow gets ripped out via static,the hands are the depressed side,happy side,drunk side and sad side,just grey blank
“how much longer until the next celebration?” “years” “*THATS A LOT*”
check the subtitles on that part
it translates to 1 year from the subtitles
@@katowae 10000
Forgive me, for I have ruined 69
@@melon2070 it’s ok, cuz there’s a 100 now :)
I feel like Joel just happened to try Turrón one day and was like “fuck I need to make a new episode.”
You probably know this but the merchant was voiced by Sr Pelo
@@goosespace3279 y e s
nougat
sorry if I ruined it
Goose space I actually did not know that but going back and watching with that knowledge makes this amazing.
I keep coming back to these videos and I keep getting a weird sense of nostalgia that reminds me of programming and scripting of 90’s and 00’s games and software.
Maybe that’s the idea behind these of Joel’s just making strange but passionate art with his animations and videos. Either way, will always come back to rewatch these videos.
“do you know why camels don’t do professional wrestling? because they **ascends** “
Ngl thats tottaly me when
that's dolphin humor for you!
@@cloudieo i know right, its especially funny when
That's really relatable when
CONTENT AWARENESS SCALE INTENSIFIES
ENA : having a mental breakdown, begging for death, uncontrollably crying
Moony : i'M gIvInG yOu An AdVaNtAgE, yOu KnOw ?
It can happen
TURRÕN
@@redd_orsmthn T U R R O N !?
@@marshall7439 TURRON!
@@goodbyorld TURRÕN!
"Why is everyone punching me so softly today? Quit hitting and finish the job!"
Mood
I think she is just a mood incarnate
"PUNISHMENT IS IMMINENT"
*Absolute banger starts playing*
I think we all had the same reaction as ENA when moony became-
“Thinner”
CHEESE AND RICE MOONY
@@annidromeda just realized that cheese and rice sounds like jesus christ ah
@@blakemesina *OH MY GOD*
She didn't just become thinner, she became anthropomorphic
@@blakemesina thought everyone knew that.
Ena: *having a breakdown*
Moony: go on babe, I'm giving you a head start 🙄😌💅
IM
PAHOAHAKQNSKW
@@chara_is_creative674 OH, HI
I like their friendship
I'm guessing she's used to it.
Ena: Literally having a meltdown
Frog: ↗➡⬇⬅➡↘⬅↙⬇↘➡↗⤴⬇↙
Also 'happy' ena agressively yelling is somehow great to hear
@@yeethittter1285 it kinda scares me 🥲
@@yeethittter1285 i never knew i needed them yelling until now
frog literally beat the shit out of ena lmao
@@yeethittter1285 when?
15:31
Sad ƏNA: Heh, it looks like I'm the best and you're the worst! ...Wonder who got the chest hair...
Happy ƏNA, in a very nonchalant voice: Where are we, anyways?
4:00 I love how you can hear Sr Pelo laughing a little when he ends saying "turrón"
sr pelo is too funny
Wait that’s Sr Pelo-?!
Thats an iconic Sr pelo laugh moment
@ThatWeirdKid yeah he’s the va
i never noticed that until now omg hahahaha
I hate how no one else is talking about Ulysses. I love his character design and I feel like what he says isn’t even considered for theories. He seems to only give Ena the option to leave once she mentions her bet with Moony. The music also begins to fade as he talks about her failing “like the rest of them” which to me seems like a very clear indicator that he has also encountered multiple Enas just like the Shepherd. This also brings up something strange:
How are these others getting into the Great Runas? I assume the goal is to beat Runas to the standing figure before time runs out, and Ena appeared there after failing the challenge by a small margin allowing her to be taken in. If the other Enas were already in Runas, this has to mean other Enas were present for previous Runas parties and all failed as well. Does this mean a few inevitably succeeded? And if Runas parties only happen every few years, how far in the past do these other Enas originate from?
“Desires are never quenched” is also something to take into consideration. If he means that Runas wishes don’t grant what the wisher truly wants, then why did Moony’s wish to be thinner get granted? Perhaps her wish to be thinner wasn’t granted how she wished, as she ended up hatching into an entirely new entity.
Great theory
I'd like to add that when he speaks he seems to be luring and warding ENA away simultaneously. Almost like he has to let her through but fears what will happen within. But he presumably hasn't been through the Holy Code so how does he know they failed?
All I have to say is TURRON
@Firen 013 TURRŌN? TURRRRRŌN?
@@firen0136 TURRON??
I love Ena's female voice in her happy mode, she's so spunky
Oh
Definitely Moony and Yanfei /j
(Moony, ENA's female voice and Yanfei ENG has the same VA)
@@jichollayviet yanfei from genshin⁉️
@@albedosimp2004 Yes!
i love the voice used at 2:31
2:26
Frog:*aggresively kickin*
Ena:nice weather,what conspiracys are we cooking on the menu today?
I love how the characters lose maybe 100 brain cells when they hear the word "Turrón"
Turrón??
Turrón? Turrón????
Turrón??!?!?
TURRON 🍫
T U R R Ó N 😈🤙
Ena: *having a literally mental breakdown*
Ena literally 1 minute later: *TURRÕN*
Having cyclothymia this is a mood
Oh yes TURRÕN
TURRÕN
TURRÕN
*TURRÕN*
I feel like this runs deeper-
*DID THAT PINK DOLPHIN JUST COME OUT OF A BIBLICAL ANGEL?!?!*
I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT TOO
SOMEONE ELSE NOTICED!!
What's funny is that if thats true, then its ironic because metaroom, a person who works on music for ena, has a song called angels.
@@variache XD
YES
I love how Enas "voices inside her head' foreshadow the ending of temptation stairway
i now realized "cheese and rice moony" is probably ENA's way of saying "Jesus Christ moony"
took ya long enough
same
English isn't my first language and I didn't realize until now... wow now I get it
people have been saying that in real life for generations tho x)
@@alidiaz4000 same but I have an ability to not roll my r-
Plus I knew English before my first language.
Aggressive ENA is terrifying. "STOP THE HITTING AND FINISH THE JOB!" and "YOU'RE ALL LIVING A LIE!" both sound way too real.
Yeah... its so creepy
ENA was feeling herself on that second one.
(10:25)
edit: ena masturbation
eh, idk. just sounds really melodramatic to me. kinda hate it ngl
it did give us this gem tho 12:37
@@z39836 a gem for sure
Did anyone else notice that Moony’s skateboard has the same pattern as the walls in Extinction Party?
I need someone to make an animal crossing nh pattern to match now
Probably got it from there.
Ooh good catch
lmao she just took off a piece of the wall and Merci was pissed
Yes.
I love the detail put in, like how at the credits of you zoom in you can see ENA and Moony talking still
Turrón: exists
The characters : Let the days go bye
Water flowing under
Turrón!
tURrÓn
Same as it ever was
TURRÓN
Temptation stairway
AKA: Ena has a mental breakdown and gets transported to a Yume Nikki like world
yeah, it reminded me of yume nikki a lot
nexus moment
Area starting at 5:07 is the "Hall of Tortured Souls" easter egg from Microsoft Office 97
Her whole world is like Yume Nikki
Everyone talkin about possible lore discoveries while I'm here still stuck on just how cute the dolphin was
I had to sit through this in multiple sittings because I just could not comprehend what was going on.
His name is Findol
@@toastedprocastinator and i wanna have him as a pillow
@ILGVARSBOSS this series is honestly the outlier for this channel...nothing else is, uh, quite like this.
Bruh, Findol makes 3 trig puns in the span of, like 10 seconds
ENA: Having a mental breakdown.
The background music: 🎶
Okay so weird detail:
When Ena talks about the Turron, both as she is talking to the Spanish guy and when she later talks to the shepherd, she does a dance from the music video for “Once in a Lifetime” by Talking Heads. The song is basically about existential dread and how things go by too quickly to the point of madness. Maybe Ena’s going through the same stuff... or she has really good taste in music. Idk.
I'd think that its going through the same stuff, seeing as how immediately after recieving the turron, she realizes she wasted all of her time to get her wish.
@@notpukicho2950 :)
3:35 is literally talking heads lol
It's subtle, but she move she does at 2:30 is also from Once in a Lifetime
Nearly all of ENA's movement throughout the series is based off that video.
Florida girl has a mental breakdown then speed runs to the make a wish foundation with a friend, finds pink dolphin.
Converts to bananaism in the process
My fucking God XDDD
Also Visits the hall of tortured souls from Microsoft Excel 95
Lmao
Spoiler alert
"Another Ena troublemaker"
Me: wait.. there's a colony of Ena's- 🗿
Me and a lot of other people think that every Ena we see in each episode is a different one as they all act differently we even see the other glitched out Ena’s glitching and becoming mannequins
@@thatdudewiththetoast8916 it would make sence..
Into the ENAverse confirmed
This feels like a way to say that there are more people like ENA out there.
does that mean theres a colony of moony’s?
all these characters voices itch my brain in a way i can't describe I LOVE ENA
9 voice actors, holy shit Joel wasn't holding back on this one
egg
Yeah
@@scooter_boy E G
eg
@@eatyourcereal4369 egg
At 6:10, when Ulysses says "years", if you turn on the captions, you get a binary code of:
00110001 00110000 00110000 00110000 00110000
If you translate this, you get 10,000
Therefore the next celebration is 10,000 years later
@@YenNguyen-qj1mo lol
That older than me geez
Ulysses is so unnerving
@@sterilized tru
@@PLSNAMA woah its that the real HANK J WIMBLETON
Hang on, I just realized something. Moony's wording about the bet is so... backwards?
"Whoever reaches the top of the Great Runas and makes their wish first _has to pay the debts of the loser._ "
Moony got her wish first. Moony had to pay the debts of the _loser._ ENA is the loser. Moony paid ENA's debts. ENA's sad side disappeared.
_"It's a proper punishment."_ _"PUNISHMENT IS IMMINENT!"_ _"You will fail--just like the rest of them."_
Was that ENA's debt? How did Moony pay it? Did Moony plan this? She deflected when ENA asked her how she got there so fast. She was probably behind ENA for a hot minute, since we never see her and she has the Shepherd's staff stuck in her moon-square...
this deserves way more attention
Thank you kind sir/women or what ever you call your self for this information 😊
THIS omg i thought i was the only one who noticed
near the end Moony says "btw, Runas doesn't look all that handsome in person, and you're thinking of Moony being behind Ena the whole time, but hang on didn't Ena see the great runas? 👀
UHHHH- I DIDNT PLAN ANYTHING- YEAAAAA- TOTALLY-