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Lauren Tsai produced the film and voices Astrid.","whyItMatters":"The short is a crossover between the band's anniversary and Lauren Tsai's Dying World project, and it puts a game director and two pop songwriters on the same voice cast, which is the kind of pairing a music release alone would not carry.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe setting is a New England boarding school covered in garbage. Astrid, a girl the school treats as a problem for drawing a certain being, loses her sketchbook and falls down a garbage chute into a world where forgotten ideas live. That premise comes from Lauren Tsai\u0026#39;s The Dying World, which was screened at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2025.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe film pairs that world with the band\u0026#39;s opening song, The End. Tsai has made fan animations set to My Chemical Romance songs since she was 11, and she voices Astrid here. Prelude to The End is free on YouTube and is also set to screen at the band\u0026#39;s Hollywood Bowl concerts on October 30 and 31.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Hideo Kojima voicing a school teacher in Prelude to The End puts a game director inside a Black Parade anniversary film, a role that reads as a casting joke only the band's own animated short could stage.","twitterPost":"Hideo Kojima voices a school teacher in Prelude to The End, casting that trades on his auteur image rather than his voice.","threadsPost":"Hideo Kojima voicing a school teacher in My Chemical Romance's Prelude to The End is a strange fit on paper, since his public identity is built on game direction, not acting. The short leans on that mismatch: the role works because the audience already knows who he is.","newsletterBlurb":"My Chemical Romance released the animated short Prelude to The End on YouTube on October 30 for The Black Parade's 20th anniversary. 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