{"id":21520,"date":"2025-04-25T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=21520"},"modified":"2025-04-25T09:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:50:52","slug":"ena-dream-bbq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2025\/04\/25\/ena-dream-bbq\/","title":{"rendered":"ENA: Dream BBQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

During my Easter break, I found myself sinking into a form of media that (surprisingly) wasn\u2019t <\/span>Common Side Effects<\/span><\/i>. Alongside that, I realized that I\u2019m starting to regress into the girl I was a few years ago under, what I assume to be, the stress of recently turning 17. That means I\u2019m diving back into the things I liked as a 13 and 14-year-old. One of those includes ENA.<\/span><\/p>\n

ENA<\/em> started as an animated series by Joel G on YouTube. ENA is a character inspired by Picasso’s “Girl before a Mirror”. She represents two prominent sides of a person as two separate colors, split down the middle. These colors portray happiness and depression represented by yellow and blue respectively. The yellow side has a male voice (which sparked my love for voice actors that are the opposite gender of the character they’re voicing) and the blue side has a female voice. They both have very dynamic and contrasting tones that I absolutely adore. The series consists of 4 episodes all under 10 minutes (excluding \u201cTemptation Stairway\u201d which is 17 minutes long). All of the characters are incredibly interesting. My favorite, other than ENA, is Moony. She\u2019s ENA\u2019s friend and I just think they\u2019re so cute together. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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I swear this isn’t bad quality, this is just the style. screenshot from the episode “Auction Day”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The ENA <\/em>series is really high quality, and because of that, episodes took a really long time to release. In between \u201cTemptation Stairway\u201d, released 4 years ago, and \u201cPower of Potluck\u201d, the newest episode, my interest in ENA naturally dropped. I still admired the series and character, I just stopped involving myself in the media as much.<\/p>\n\n\n

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look how cute she is!!!!! “Extinction Party” episode thumbnail<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Until ENA: Dream BBQ<\/em> came out on March 27, 2025 (3 days after my birthday!) and I found out about it relatively quickly. Probably because it was a really anticipated game so a lot of YouTubers and other creators that I follow played it and talked about it. I was quick to jump on the train as well, watching my first play through of it on April 12. Then I watched 3 more play throughs and multiple videos breaking down the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I feel like I\u2019m more than qualified to spoil the whole thing, but I highly encourage others to play it for themselves. It\u2019s free on Steam! So here, I\u2019ll just discuss my favorite things about the game and how much I love the Dream BBQ<\/em> version of ENA.<\/p>\n\n\n

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i love her so much<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

This game is very similar to the Youtube series, which already felt like clips of a video game. It feels like a playable episode of ENA <\/em>and I think that\u2019s the perfect way to translate the series into a game. It\u2019s incredibly surreal and confusing while also being fun and leaving a lot of the story to the audience\u2019s interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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tbh i don’t know what i’m looking at here<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

ENA has changed a lot between the YouTube series and the game. Instead of yellow and blue, she\u2019s white and red. The different sides of her even have different names, white is \u201cmeanie\u201d and red is \u201csalesman\u201d! She even has a cute little hat. I still have a lot of love for the old ENA, the yellow and blue color combination brings back a lot of good memories, but Dream BBQ<\/em> ENA is definitely my favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n

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what a cutie<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

I think my second favorite character is Froggy – a Japanese speaking man in a huge frog costume. He has so much personality and he\u2019s very expressive. He even has an amazing ringtone<\/a> when he calls you! I\u2019m considering making it my own ringtone\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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froggy and ena.. my favs…<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

One of my (many) favorite parts of the game is when ENA, who you\u2019re playing as, enters the \u201cLost Village\u201d and knocks on the doors of the houses in the area until she finds the right one. Each house that isn\u2019t the right one disappears with a unique animation and I just think that\u2019s really funny. It\u2019s also just fun to see all the different animations, it makes me hope to never find the right house just to see the animations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the anticipation for this game was high (to my understanding), it\u2019s not as popular as I thought it would\u2019ve been. Compared to the traction the ENA series received, the game has received a surprisingly little amount of attention. But that just makes the fan content a lot more special. Some of those TikTok editors make videos that seriously look like trailers for the game! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this to say, I really love ENA: Dream BBQ<\/em>. I think everyone should play it or watch someone else play it because some of the biggest YouTubers that have played it only have half of a million views as I’m writing – which sounds like a lot but compared to the series\u2019 combined view count of 47.5 million<\/strong>, it\u2019s not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During my Easter break, I found myself sinking into a form of media that (surprisingly) wasn\u2019t Common Side Effects. Alongside that, I realized that I\u2019m starting to regress into the girl I was a few years ago under, what I assume to be, the stress of recently turning 17. That means I\u2019m diving back into … Continue reading “ENA: Dream BBQ”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21520"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21579,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21520\/revisions\/21579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}