Now, come one, come all…and watch this new stop-motion animated short film from My Chemical Romance and Lauren Tsai . Titled “Prelude to the End,” Tsai helmed the over six-minute short for MCR, most of which is set to the band’s opening track to The Black Parade , “The End.” The short was released in celebration of The Black Parade ‘s 20th anniversary.

‘Prelude to the End’

The visuals for “Prelude to the End” are actually from Tsai’s 2025 short film, The Dying World Part One: Forgetting . The official synopsis is as follows: “Astrid lives torn between two worlds: a boundless, sterile office and a desolate blue realm composed of trash she struggles to recollect. When she finds a door to her childhood bedroom, she feeds what’s left of it to her only friend, Crow, who wonders how much longer she can live in these fragmented realities.”

The short shows Astrid at a school called Paper Academy. Naturally, this got MCR fans in a tizzy.…