Froggy
“"汗水を垂らすんだ、ENA! その調子で頑張ってくれ。"
("Sweat that shirt, ENA! Keep up that hard work.")”
― Froggy, Dream BBQ
Froggy is a deuteragonist in the ENA series. He is a main character who appears in Dream BBQ.
Appearance
Froggy is a masculine humanoid character. He wears a black frog suit with two large, bulging eyes and a white outline surrounding it. Froggy's body, including his face, is relatively human-like and resembles ukiyo-e, an art style used for traditional woodblock prints and paintings. His skin is completely white, and his face has high-contrast shading.
Froggy's outfit consists of a dark red necktie, a purple skirt, a gray loincloth, black shin wraps outlined in white, and green-beige getas.
Personality
Froggy acts as a comic relief character and a foil to Ena, similar to Moony's dynamic with Ena in Season 1. He is a highly blusterous and confident character with a loud, colorful, and larger-than-life personality. While having these qualities and also thinking highly of himself, he is not all that smart.[3][4]
He values professionalism, wishing for him and Ena to keep their relationship work-related, and commenting on her being unprofessional upon returning from the Lonely Door. Despite his dedication to his job, he has some laziness when doing it. He refuses to leave the Hub, leaving Ena to go out and handle the smoke and notes he won't pick up her slack if she were to die.
Gallery
Artwork
- Froggy alongside Taski Maiden, Ena, and Dratula.
- Joel G.'s Patreon and Joelgc.com banner during Dream BBQ's development. Features Froggy and Ena.
- Froggy posing in an ENA Day 2023 stream.
- Froggy, as seen in Joel G's 4/25/25 stream.
Merchandise
Trivia
- Froggy was first revealed in the Dream BBQ game trailer.
- Froggy slightly resembles Brick Frog. Both characters are based on frogs and have similar white outlines on their bodies. Despite this, they are stated to be unrelated.
- Froggy appears to be a Season 2 parallel to Moony. Both have a similar name structure of a word having a "y" at the end, (In Froggy's case, it being "g and y") and are arrogant deuteragonists who accompany Ena in their respective seasons.
- Froggy's name was first revealed through the name of a piece of merchandise on Joelgc.com.
- In one line, Froggy bets the Genies are the "banana-smoking" types. This is a reference to the dialogue involving Mariya and Gabo in Temptation Stairway.
Cultural references and inspirations
- Froggy was stated on an ENA Day 2022 Twitch stream to be based on the character Gonta from the Japanese educational children's show Dekirukana. The character themself is a large anthropomorphic gopher played by an actor in costume. It was stated by Joel Guerra that he watched the show as a child, as it also aired in Latin American countries.
- Ena is also based on the show's other main character, Noppo. This is likely why Ena and Froggy are paired together.
- Coincidence or not, Froggy's attire and color scheme resemble that of Tsubakura Enraku from the Len'en Project game series.
- Froggy's personality appears to be inspired by comic relief characters in old Japanese detective/private eye dramas.[3][4]