This video doesn't cover the most resent ena video. It's called Power of potluck and unlike the rest of the series it actually has a discernible meaning. Would recomend checking it out
I’m pretty sure the main reason I love this series so much is it’s abstractness- sure some of it can be broken down but the amount of references, the little Easter eggs and mistranslations, the multiple personalities of characters, etc creates the environment of a game well made but spliced together. Like I can TELL it takes so much effort, it’s just an experience. I’d love to see more of this in a museum exhibition sometime though, I feel like it shows not EVERYTHING has to have such a intense meaning- I’m a Museum Studies and anthropology major, and while abstract works aren’t my specialty, it would be fantastic to see both the highly-revered multicultural paintings, sculptures, and other media alongside this new age of digital chaos. Call me a prude all ya want, not everyone’s cup of tea by far but I wish more people knew you can just… create just to create.
I'm glad you found a breakdown video that made sense to you!! I really adore surrealism content, and absolutely try Power of Potluck and the trailer for Dream BBQ! They're really cool. And at the least, the music is soooo cool, especially the track that plays during Dream BBQ's trailer! c:
The whole charm of ENA is that it is so incredibly abstract and barely makes sense at times. It’s definitely not for everyone, but a lot of people enjoy it. The newest one, power of potluck, has a discernible meaning though, so I recommend that one
It is very difficult to confuse me. But ENA, oh boy ENA... It doesn't help that my brain is trying to process something that has nearly no visual similarities to the real world, so watching it does make my head hurt a little (I have the same problem with Minecraft). At least the symbolism for the last episode was pretty obvious. 13:17 You feel their sins crawling on your back.
The mime lady is speaking Korean not French nor Japanese, the drunk guy in the UFO however is speaking Japanese like you thought Fun fact the merchant speaks Spanish & the Shepard speaks Russian. The company shown in Ena in one pic is Toei.
Ena is prob my fav yt og series and my weird ass totally adores the way it's just a complete fever dream and I love watching relatively normal ppl have complete meltdowns at just ATTEMPTING to give a meaning or clue to what all the madness that is about🤣🤣😂
If you're someone who enjoys Ena, you either don't question the insanity going on. Or you roll with it, but try to come up with theories so it makes more sense. Or you're just that part who doesn't understand anything that's going on and is having an existential crisis like this guy.
I hope you return to OSP. Especially do Red's old Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid. Odyssey is my favorite, but I want to see what you think of very first Red videos that she illustrated for fully. Chibi stuff etc. Though she did voice-over. It is gloriously funny and fantastic!
I actually tried first. Way too trippy for me. This felt like a better way to engage with the content without sitting there in absolute confusion. Or, more confusion than I already had. 😅
@@AirierA shame, but I did have a feeling you probably wouldn't vibe with the series given your reactions to less abstract things. Still, good on you for giving it a shot. Also, if I may make a suggestion for another series that deserves attention: check out Monkey Wrench. Three episode indie animation about space adventures.
about the day night theme with enas halves warframe actually follows a similar theme with equinox. enas yellow side seems to be yang or animus while the blue might be the anima or ying. Here: Equinox takes inspiration from "Anima and Animus" of Jungian psychology fame, two anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind that represent the feminine aspects of a man and the masculine aspects of a woman. It also helps that her base colors have red and blue accents for her day and night forms, albeit reversed. Day form represents the Animus or masculinity, having increased movement speed and damage output, and designed around heavy offense with abilities that increase the damage enemies will take. Night form represents the Anima or femininity, having increased defensive stats and healing attributes, and serves a support/medic role with debuffs in Rest and Pacify; and potent healing in Mend. Visually invokes the taijitu in her combined form, with the different forms focusing on one aspect over the other. This was, of course, the theme that was voted on for her. Day Mode reflects the Yang, having a white body, black accent marks, and a sky blue gradient as its base color scheme. Day Form wears masculine armor (with broad shoulders and a codpiece), and has powers heavily focused on working actively (movement speed and damage-dealing), including Rage and Provoke. Night Mode reflects the Yin, having a dark body, white accent marks, and an ecliptic red gradient as its base color scheme. Night Form wears a feminine garb (with a slight build and a cloth robe including a full skirt), and has powers associated with passivity (personal defense and party support), including Rest and Pacify.
I couldn't care less about this Digital Circus thing, but ENA is an absoutely fantastic series of shorts. I just wish you hadn't cheated yourself out of watching those first, by watching that video that explains it all, first.
this feel like i am playing a nice indie game i foud at 3 in the morning that has no info on it is free and only elven people now about it and sometime when i look it up nothing appres and when i play it i cant tell if i am awake or dreaming but its one of my favorit games i have no idea what i was just talking about but i did not lose my sanity
Disappointed you didn't just watch the official Joel G. videos. There are playlists with the chronological order but instead you went straight for the spoilers.
While i am sad its not a reaction to the actual videos cause honestly seeing you just confused would have been incredibly entertaining but i also get that especially with Ena, this series could just cause ones brain to shortcircut (as i have discovered torturing my friends with it) so if this is the best reaction il get il take it, plus im always up for more ena love
To understand a lot of ENA videos, you just need to kinda.. accept the weird facts first. Then you try to find meaning in them xD Trying to understand immediately might lead to your brain shutting down. Anyway after seeing this lore vid, I advise re-watching those ENA vids now! Cause there's a lot of things he didn't talk about in that summary that makes slightly more sense in the original videos. So yeah, good luck!
31:19: Because this series is a mix of Abstract Art and Surrealism. But Surrealism is not Dada. 🤨 The thing people often confuse between Dadaism and Surrealism is that they are both weird and because they are both weird that means to them that they thus have no point because of their weirdness... which is not true, at all! I know you said you studied art, but as a refresher: Dadaism genuinely doesn't have a point, because it was made in response to the purported 'nihilism' and 'pointless slaughter' of World War I, the first modern war involving tanks, trenches, poison gas, and mass produced guns. It was deliberately designed to not have a meaning and be off-putting because of the visual overload. Surrealism on the other hand, _DOES_ have a logic or point to it... it's just that it's merely hidden behind dense symbolism and dream logic that means nothing to the person that isn't doing the dreaming: it's subjective. For someone not having the dream, they have to reference dream dictionaries, psychoanalytical guides, and just be good at not taking things purely at face value, at seeking meaning. You have to _actually_ look deep enough to find meaning; you'll get nothing, go nowhere, by just throwing a neurotic fit and complaining about everything being too weird or brain-melting for you. 😩 This is not for agoraphobic and panaphobic types who fear and despise everything, and prefer to cringe under their shell, because the outside world's scary to them. Be brave. Be curious. Have interests. 😒 This kind of ties into my earlier comment/ mini-essay/ unhinged rant about _LSD: Dream Emulator_ : The entire thing is just doing its own thing and weaving images and stories that change their meaning dependent on the viewer and how they feel about it, but for someone who isn't looking for meaning... for someone who just _expects_ everything to automatically have meaning presented to them in a straightforward manner for them, the message is this: It is a dream, and you are the dreamer. If you don't like how the dream is turning out, the resolution is simple: just wake up. Walk away. You can _choose_ to stop anytime you want to and come back to it when you are ready for it. If you're not, then you'll probably want to go do something else.😔 There's probably nothing here you'll like, if all you ever do is panic like some frightened chihuahua that wasn't socialized from an early age, so its only response is to bite anything and everything that scares it or run away. Focus on what you _do_ like, such as Overly Sarcastic Productions or What If the Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device or videogames or whatever else you care for! If it's not making you happy, then look for things that do, regardless of what your viewers may or may not pressure you into doing. This is _YOUR_ channel; you are the one in control of it!
Yin and yang are semantically complex words. John DeFrancis's ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary gives the following translation equivalents.[21] Yin 陰 or 阴 - Noun: ① [philosophy] female/passive/negative principle in nature, ② Surname; Bound morpheme: ① the moon, ② shaded orientation, ③ covert; concealed; hidden, ④ vagina, ⑤ penis, ⑥ of the netherworld, ⑦ negative, ⑧ north side of a hill, ⑨ south bank of a river, ⑩ reverse side of a stele, ⑪ in intaglio; Stative verb: ① overcast, ② sinister; treacherous Yang 陽 or 阳 - Bound morpheme: ① [Chinese philosophy] male/active/positive principle in nature, ② the sun, ③ male genitals, ④ in relief, ⑤ open; overt, ⑥ belonging to this world, ⑦ [linguistics] masculine, ⑧ south side of a hill, ⑨ north bank of a river The compound yinyang 陰陽 means "yin and yang; opposites; ancient Chinese astronomy; occult arts; astrologer; geomancer; etc." The sinologist Rolf Stein etymologically translates Chinese yin 陰 "shady side (of a mountain)" and yang 陽 "sunny side (of a mountain)" with the uncommon English geographic terms ubac "shady side of a mountain" and adret "sunny side of a mountain" (which are of French origin).[22]
This video doesn't cover the most resent ena video. It's called Power of potluck and unlike the rest of the series it actually has a discernible meaning. Would recomend checking it out
There was a second break down video. I haven't checked it out yet, but it might cover that. 🤔
@@AirierEpisode 7 of murder drones has been uploaded, will you be making a reaction video of it?
Warning ⚠️:
IT
IS
MIND
BREAKING
First undertale animations, then glitchtale, then underverse, and then ENA??? is this guy reading my mind or something? I cant stop watching him!
"I did it?" - that one dude in the comments
"He did it?" - everybody else
I hate how accurate this is.
Fun fact: Ena's female VA is the same one who voices Pomni.
HMMM, I *wonder* if there's some connection there.
@@greenhydra10oh... I know! The connection is the voice actress! Hope that clears things up 😊
@@DeezBalls-uo3tiThank you
@@DeezBalls-uo3tiI would've never known
I’m pretty sure the main reason I love this series so much is it’s abstractness- sure some of it can be broken down but the amount of references, the little Easter eggs and mistranslations, the multiple personalities of characters, etc creates the environment of a game well made but spliced together.
Like I can TELL it takes so much effort, it’s just an experience.
I’d love to see more of this in a museum exhibition sometime though, I feel like it shows not EVERYTHING has to have such a intense meaning- I’m a Museum Studies and anthropology major, and while abstract works aren’t my specialty, it would be fantastic to see both the highly-revered multicultural paintings, sculptures, and other media alongside this new age of digital chaos.
Call me a prude all ya want, not everyone’s cup of tea by far but I wish more people knew you can just… create just to create.
I agree, i love it when creators take risks or make something abstract. I makes their projects unique
i wouldve watched an hour long video of you staring slack jawed at the screen while ena plays quietly in the bg
What a shame, I wish I had seen your reactions to the original videos :(
Same, it's REALLY disapointing that he didn't just watch them first. Almost as disappointing as comparing it to that Digital Circus thing.
@teruienages962 I don't know why you think comparing to digital circus is a bad thing. Digital circus was good. Especially the ost.
I'm glad you found a breakdown video that made sense to you!! I really adore surrealism content, and absolutely try Power of Potluck and the trailer for Dream BBQ! They're really cool. And at the least, the music is soooo cool, especially the track that plays during Dream BBQ's trailer! c:
The whole charm of ENA is that it is so incredibly abstract and barely makes sense at times. It’s definitely not for everyone, but a lot of people enjoy it. The newest one, power of potluck, has a discernible meaning though, so I recommend that one
Hey man, it's okay to test your weirdness tolerance and say that it's too much.
I know ENA is popular but the other stuff Joel G makes is so fun. Deadline is one of my favorite videos ever
I hope he continues hands up
It is very difficult to confuse me. But ENA, oh boy ENA... It doesn't help that my brain is trying to process something that has nearly no visual similarities to the real world, so watching it does make my head hurt a little (I have the same problem with Minecraft). At least the symbolism for the last episode was pretty obvious.
13:17 You feel their sins crawling on your back.
"less sane" is an understatement
Phindol is a Dolphin
.....today is the day I realized the name is a respelling of the animal.....
The mime lady is speaking Korean not French nor Japanese, the drunk guy in the UFO however is speaking Japanese like you thought
Fun fact the merchant speaks Spanish & the Shepard speaks Russian. The company shown in Ena in one pic is Toei.
Ena is prob my fav yt og series and my weird ass totally adores the way it's just a complete fever dream and I love watching relatively normal ppl have complete meltdowns at just ATTEMPTING to give a meaning or clue to what all the madness that is about🤣🤣😂
If you're someone who enjoys Ena, you either don't question the insanity going on. Or you roll with it, but try to come up with theories so it makes more sense.
Or you're just that part who doesn't understand anything that's going on and is having an existential crisis like this guy.
I hope you return to OSP. Especially do Red's old Iliad, Odyssey and Aeneid. Odyssey is my favorite, but I want to see what you think of very first Red videos that she illustrated for fully. Chibi stuff etc. Though she did voice-over. It is gloriously funny and fantastic!
DEFINITELY going back to OSP. Just took a break to check out a few other things. 😁
Pestering works!
Watch spooky month lore
Can you watch the actual series next? :D
I actually tried first. Way too trippy for me. This felt like a better way to engage with the content without sitting there in absolute confusion. Or, more confusion than I already had. 😅
Fair, I think it would still be funny to see you watch them! 🤣 Mainly bc there are some scenes that you will find rlly interesting. :D
@@Airier You always find things 50 times more trippy than I do. Like, I found ENA more comedic and vibing than trippy
@@AirierA shame, but I did have a feeling you probably wouldn't vibe with the series given your reactions to less abstract things. Still, good on you for giving it a shot.
Also, if I may make a suggestion for another series that deserves attention: check out Monkey Wrench. Three episode indie animation about space adventures.
@@maximusharbour3463 Same dude! I personally am a HUGE horror and trippy stuff fan, bc I think it's so cool and entertaining!
Rise and shine Airier, rise and shine, murder drones Episode 7 is out
Bro’s head is exploding
Thanks for this.
I only knew about the steam page.
15:50 That's actually Toei's old logo.
Bro just quoted the beginning of a song! 20:10
Atleast he wasn't caught in a landslide with no escape from reality
about the day night theme with enas halves warframe actually follows a similar theme with equinox. enas yellow side seems to be yang or animus while the blue might be the anima or ying.
Here:
Equinox takes inspiration from "Anima and Animus" of Jungian psychology fame, two anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind that represent the feminine aspects of a man and the masculine aspects of a woman. It also helps that her base colors have red and blue accents for her day and night forms, albeit reversed.
Day form represents the Animus or masculinity, having increased movement speed and damage output, and designed around heavy offense with abilities that increase the damage enemies will take.
Night form represents the Anima or femininity, having increased defensive stats and healing attributes, and serves a support/medic role with debuffs in Rest and Pacify; and potent healing in Mend.
Visually invokes the taijitu in her combined form, with the different forms focusing on one aspect over the other. This was, of course, the theme that was voted on for her.
Day Mode reflects the Yang, having a white body, black accent marks, and a sky blue gradient as its base color scheme.
Day Form wears masculine armor (with broad shoulders and a codpiece), and has powers heavily focused on working actively (movement speed and damage-dealing), including Rage and Provoke.
Night Mode reflects the Yin, having a dark body, white accent marks, and an ecliptic red gradient as its base color scheme.
Night Form wears a feminine garb (with a slight build and a cloth robe including a full skirt), and has powers associated with passivity (personal defense and party support), including Rest and Pacify.
I couldn't care less about this Digital Circus thing, but ENA is an absoutely fantastic series of shorts. I just wish you hadn't cheated yourself out of watching those first, by watching that video that explains it all, first.
Goosework likes Ena
Can't wait for Murder Drones ep. 7 reaction (I'm too lazy to read background texts myself)
You should also check out Joel G's other series 2 ants 1 president
Phindoll sounds familiar because it's just 'dol-phin'.
New murder drones episode is out
this enter series must be what it is like to be fatal erorr
you should watch Wildcard's Ultrakill lore videos.
The lore for the game is really neat :v
haza, ENA stuff! kinda wish we got to see his reaction to the actual videos, but at least we get this.
this feel like i am playing a nice indie game i foud at 3 in the morning that has no info on it is free and only elven people now about it and sometime when i look it up nothing appres and when i play it i cant tell if i am awake or dreaming but its one of my favorit games i have no idea what i was just talking about but i did not lose my sanity
Disappointed you didn't just watch the official Joel G. videos. There are playlists with the chronological order but instead you went straight for the spoilers.
In simple terms, ENA makes no sense, and any attempt to figure out will fail
While i am sad its not a reaction to the actual videos cause honestly seeing you just confused would have been incredibly entertaining but i also get that especially with Ena, this series could just cause ones brain to shortcircut (as i have discovered torturing my friends with it) so if this is the best reaction il get il take it, plus im always up for more ena love
You should check tales of alethrion , pretty amazing indie series.
But what about episode 4? That's a real doozy
OMG YESSS
YEAAHHHHH
To understand a lot of ENA videos, you just need to kinda.. accept the weird facts first. Then you try to find meaning in them xD
Trying to understand immediately might lead to your brain shutting down.
Anyway after seeing this lore vid, I advise re-watching those ENA vids now! Cause there's a lot of things he didn't talk about in that summary that makes slightly more sense in the original videos. So yeah, good luck!
Love from a Nozzivix and Vaush fan!
this is the worst title you couldve come up with for a ENA video
I am the best and your the worst
31:19: Because this series is a mix of Abstract Art and Surrealism. But Surrealism is not Dada. 🤨
The thing people often confuse between Dadaism and Surrealism is that they are both weird and because they are both weird that means to them that they thus have no point because of their weirdness... which is not true, at all!
I know you said you studied art, but as a refresher: Dadaism genuinely doesn't have a point, because it was made in response to the purported 'nihilism' and 'pointless slaughter' of World War I, the first modern war involving tanks, trenches, poison gas, and mass produced guns. It was deliberately designed to not have a meaning and be off-putting because of the visual overload.
Surrealism on the other hand, _DOES_ have a logic or point to it... it's just that it's merely hidden behind dense symbolism and dream logic that means nothing to the person that isn't doing the dreaming: it's subjective.
For someone not having the dream, they have to reference dream dictionaries, psychoanalytical guides, and just be good at not taking things purely at face value, at seeking meaning.
You have to _actually_ look deep enough to find meaning; you'll get nothing, go nowhere, by just throwing a neurotic fit and complaining about everything being too weird or brain-melting for you. 😩
This is not for agoraphobic and panaphobic types who fear and despise everything, and prefer to cringe under their shell, because the outside world's scary to them.
Be brave.
Be curious.
Have interests. 😒
This kind of ties into my earlier comment/ mini-essay/ unhinged rant about _LSD: Dream Emulator_ : The entire thing is just doing its own thing and weaving images and stories that change their meaning dependent on the viewer and how they feel about it, but for someone who isn't looking for meaning... for someone who just _expects_ everything to automatically have meaning presented to them in a straightforward manner for them, the message is this:
It is a dream, and you are the dreamer.
If you don't like how the dream is turning out, the resolution is simple: just wake up.
Walk away.
You can _choose_ to stop anytime you want to and come back to it when you are ready for it.
If you're not, then you'll probably want to go do something else.😔
There's probably nothing here you'll like, if all you ever do is panic like some frightened chihuahua that wasn't socialized from an early age, so its only response is to bite anything and everything that scares it or run away.
Focus on what you _do_ like, such as Overly Sarcastic Productions or What If the Emperor Had a Text-To-Speech Device or videogames or whatever else you care for!
If it's not making you happy, then look for things that do, regardless of what your viewers may or may not pressure you into doing. This is _YOUR_ channel; you are the one in control of it!
you really should have watched the ena videos first
Nice video.
V
eh, ena is 100 times better than tadc
n it came out long before tadc did
Yin and yang are semantically complex words.
John DeFrancis's ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary gives the following translation equivalents.[21]
Yin 陰 or 阴 - Noun: ① [philosophy] female/passive/negative principle in nature, ② Surname; Bound morpheme: ① the moon, ② shaded orientation, ③ covert; concealed; hidden, ④ vagina, ⑤ penis, ⑥ of the netherworld, ⑦ negative, ⑧ north side of a hill, ⑨ south bank of a river, ⑩ reverse side of a stele, ⑪ in intaglio; Stative verb: ① overcast, ② sinister; treacherous
Yang 陽 or 阳 - Bound morpheme: ① [Chinese philosophy] male/active/positive principle in nature, ② the sun, ③ male genitals, ④ in relief, ⑤ open; overt, ⑥ belonging to this world, ⑦ [linguistics] masculine, ⑧ south side of a hill, ⑨ north bank of a river
The compound yinyang 陰陽 means "yin and yang; opposites; ancient Chinese astronomy; occult arts; astrologer; geomancer; etc."
The sinologist Rolf Stein etymologically translates Chinese yin 陰 "shady side (of a mountain)" and yang 陽 "sunny side (of a mountain)" with the uncommon English geographic terms ubac "shady side of a mountain" and adret "sunny side of a mountain" (which are of French origin).[22]