Guard our Girls Trend

Moose

Munchin and Musing

Posted: 07/22/25

The Trend

I came across this trend when the following video showed up for me on Instagram reels by user chen_therice

And I thought it came out really cool and it inspired me to try to make one myself! For anyone curious, the following is from one of the comments of the video on Instagram, explaining where all the clips are from:

All the animations in order: Jiang Ziya, Madoka Magica, Legend of Hei, Princess Mononoke, Princess Kaguya, Secret Of Kells, Wolfwalkers, Prince of Egypt, Transformers One, Persepolis, Look Back, Puss in Boots the Last Wish, City the Animation, Paprika, Jiang Ziya (again), Paprika (again), Legend of Hei (again), The Breadwinner, Ernest Celestine

Looking into the trend a bit, it looks like it started with people wanting to show support for human made animation, as opposed to Ai animation, and specifically focus on women characters in animation. From what I've seen come across my timeline, it seems like it's grown a bit to just show off favorite animations in general, still though trying to promote human made animation over Ai animation.

For anyone unfamiliar, the song is "Honor to us All" from the Disney movie Mulan

My Own Video

Without further ado, here's the video I came up with! I put the sources in the bottom left. I'm pretty happy with how it came out!

YouTube embed in case the video player on my website doesn't work well: