THE SHORT VERSION
- My Chemical Romance released an animated short film, Prelude to the End, made with the visual artist Lauren Tsai; Pitchfork reported it on 29 October and NME on 30 October.My Chemical Romance 发布动画短片《Prelude to the End》，与视觉艺术家 Lauren Tsai 合作；Pitchfork 于10月29日、NME 于10月30日报道。
- The film follows Astrid, a student at a New England boarding school overrun with rubbish, and sets her story to The Black Parade's opening track, The End.短片讲述新英格兰一所被垃圾淹没的寄宿学校学生 Astrid 的故事，配乐使用《The Black Parade》的开场曲《The End》。
- Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Hideo Kojima and John C. McGinley are in the voice cast, and the film screens before the band's last two Hollywood Bowl shows on 30 and 31 October.Billie Eilish、Phoebe Bridgers、Hideo Kojima 与 John C. McGinley 参与配音，短片在乐队10月30日、31日两场 Hollywood Bowl 演出前放映。
The film arrived with a four-name voice cast短片与四位配音演员一同公布
My Chemical Romance have released an animated short film, Prelude to the End, made with the visual artist Lauren Tsai. Pitchfork reported the release on 29 October and listed the voice cast: Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Hideo Kojima and the actor John C. McGinley. NME reported the film a day later and put the same four performers at the front of its headline. Both reports embed the film, so it can be watched in the page.My Chemical Romance 发布了动画短片《Prelude to the End》，作品由乐队与视觉艺术家 Lauren Tsai 合作完成。Pitchfork 于10月29日报道了短片上线的消息，并列出配音阵容：Phoebe Bridgers、Billie Eilish、Hideo Kojima 与演员 John C. McGinley。NME 在一天后报道了同一部短片，把同样四位表演者放在标题最前面。两家报道都把短片直接嵌入了页面，读者可以在文中观看。
Both outlets tie the film to the band's anniversary. It arrives as My Chemical Romance mark 20 years of The Black Parade, the 2006 album, and Pitchfork notes that it landed just after a 20th-anniversary reissue. NME reports that Tsai's independent studio UNREAL INC. produced the project. The film combines the visual world of Tsai's animated feature The Dying World with "The End", the opening track of the album, according to NME. NME treats the film as part of that anniversary run rather than a standalone video.两家媒体都把这部短片与乐队的周年纪念联系在一起。短片上线之际，My Chemical Romance 正在纪念2006年专辑《The Black Parade》发行20周年，Pitchfork 特别指出，它紧接在这张专辑的20周年再版之后推出。NME 报道，项目由 Tsai 的独立工作室 UNREAL INC. 制作。据 NME 介绍，短片把 Tsai 动画长片《The Dying World》的视觉世界，与专辑开场曲《The End》放在同一个项目里。NME 把这部短片当作周年纪念活动的一部分来处理，而不是一支独立的短片。
A boarding school, a rubbish chute, a sketchbook一所寄宿学校、一道垃圾滑道与一本速写本
The film follows Astrid, a student at a boarding school in New England that has been overrun with rubbish. NME calls the school mysterious, and Pitchfork says it is overrun with trash. When the school's authorities throw away her sketchbook, she follows it down a rubbish chute and ends up in a surreal world inhabited by forgotten ideas. Pitchfork describes the place she reaches as a new, uncanny realm of old ideas that come to life.短片的故事围绕 Astrid 展开：她是新英格兰一所寄宿学校的学生，而这所学校已经被垃圾淹没。NME 称这所学校“神秘”，Pitchfork 则直接说它堆满垃圾。学校的管理者把她的速写本扔掉之后，她顺着垃圾滑道追了下去，最终进入一个由被遗忘的想法构成的超现实世界。Pitchfork 把她抵达的地方形容为一片陌生的领域，那里旧日的想法重新活了过来。
NME gives the running time as nine minutes. Tsai voices Astrid, Eilish plays her friend and Bridgers voices her sister. Hideo Kojima, whom NME identifies as a Japanese video game designer, plays a character called The Teacher, and John C. McGinley, whom NME identifies as a Scrubs actor, voices The Dean. Pitchfork describes the Dean as an even more imposing administrative figure, and calls the four performers "a pretty formidable voice cast". Related coverage on this site includes the record size of Japan's anime market.NME 给出的片长是九分钟。Tsai 为 Astrid 配音，Eilish 配音她的朋友，Bridgers 配音她的姐姐。为 The Teacher 配音的是 Hideo Kojima，NME 标注他为日本游戏设计师；为 The Dean 配音的是 John C. McGinley，NME 称他为《Scrubs》演员。Pitchfork 形容 The Dean 是一个更有压迫感的管理者角色，并称这四位表演者组成了“相当可观的配音阵容”。本站相关阅读包括日本动画市场的规模纪录。
Tsai's return to the band's musicTsai 回到这支乐队的音乐里
NME frames the project as a full circle for Tsai, who grew up making animated fan videos set to My Chemical Romance songs. In a statement, she said: "It was an absolute dream to work on this project for The Black Parade and The Dying World." She also said she had spent years admiring the worlds Gerard Way created, and that she was honoured he had drawn inspiration from her own work.NME 把这一项目写成 Tsai 的一次回归原点：她从小就用 My Chemical Romance 的歌制作动画同人视频。她在一份声明中说：“能为《The Black Parade》和《The Dying World》做这个项目，简直是梦想成真。”她还说，自己多年来一直欣赏 Gerard Way 创造的世界，也很荣幸他从自己的作品里获得灵感。
The Bridgers connection predates the film. NME reports that Tsai directed the animated music video for Boygenius's "Cool About It" in 2023. She told NME then that the song was "beautifully melancholic and piercing" and that collaborating with Boygenius was "an absolute dream". It also notes that Bridgers covered "Welcome To The Black Parade" with Sloppy Jane at SXSW in 2022, and calls her a longtime admirer of the band. Neither report says how the four voice performers were approached, and neither says whether the film stays online after this week's screenings.她与 Bridgers 的合作早于这部短片。NME 报道，Tsai 在2023年执导了 Boygenius《Cool About It》的动画MV；她当时对 NME 说，那首歌“优美、忧郁而锋利”，并把与 Boygenius 的合作称为“梦想成真”。报道还提到，Bridgers 2022年在 SXSW 与 Sloppy Jane 一起翻唱了《Welcome To The Black Parade》，并称她是这支乐队长期的欣赏者。两家报道都没有说明四位配音演员是如何被邀请加入的，也没有说明短片在本周放映之后是否继续在线。
A live concerto recording sits in the mix片中有一段协奏曲现场录音
Pitchfork adds a detail NME leaves out: the film includes a live recording of Pascal Dusapin's Flying River, Violin Concerto, performed by the Utopia Orchestra and conducted by Giuseppe Mengoli. NME's account concentrates on the animation, the voice cast and the anniversary campaign instead. Neither outlet says how the concerto recording was licensed or where it sits in the nine minutes. Pitchfork names the performers but not the date or the venue of the recording.Pitchfork 补充了一个 NME 没有提到的细节：短片中使用了 Pascal Dusapin《Flying River, Violin Concerto》的现场录音，由 Utopia Orchestra 演奏、Giuseppe Mengoli 指挥。NME 的报道则集中在动画、配音阵容与周年宣传活动上。两家报道都没有说明这段协奏曲录音是如何获得授权的，也没有说明它在九分钟里出现在哪个位置。
The two singers have worked together before. NME reports that Bridgers joined Eilish, alongside Boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, for "When The Party's Over" at London's Electric Ballroom in 2023. Both appear in the film in voice only, since Tsai's animation carries the roles on screen. Pitchfork does not mention that earlier collaboration; on the plot and the screening dates, the two accounts agree.两位歌手此前有过合作。NME 报道，2023年 Bridgers 在伦敦 Electric Ballroom 与 Eilish 同台，和 Boygenius 的队友 Lucy Dacus、Julien Baker 一起演唱了《When The Party's Over》。两人在短片中只贡献声音，画面部分由 Tsai 的动画承担。Pitchfork 没有提到这次早前的同台；在剧情与放映安排上，两家报道的说法一致。
Two Hollywood Bowl nightsHollywood Bowl 的两晚
The film is being screened ahead of My Chemical Romance's final two Hollywood Bowl concerts, on 30 and 31 October. Pitchfork describes those as the last two nights of a five-night residency at the Los Angeles venue, part of the Long Live The Black Parade tour. NME reports that the shows close the US leg of that tour.短片将在 My Chemical Romance 于10月30日、31日举行的最后两场 Hollywood Bowl 演出前放映。Pitchfork 称这是乐队在洛杉矶这处场馆五晚驻场演出的最后两晚，属于纪念《The Black Parade》20周年的“Long Live The Black Parade”巡演。NME 报道，这两场演出是该巡演美国段的收官。
Both outlets describe what the concerts contain. The band performs The Black Parade in full along with songs from the rest of its catalogue, according to NME. Pitchfork reports that the run began last year, and that the band also played the album in full at When We Were Young in 2024. NME notes that the company behind the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders has taken legal action against the band over lookalike uniforms worn during a staged gunfight.两家报道都写到了演出的内容。据 NME，乐队会完整演奏《The Black Parade》，并加演其余作品中的曲目。Pitchfork 报道，这一轮演出从去年开始，乐队还在2024年 When We Were Young 音乐节上完整演奏过这张专辑。NME 还提到，Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders 背后的公司已经就乐队在一场模拟枪战中使用相似制服提起诉讼。
The reissue, and an album that is only a hope再版，以及一张只是愿望的专辑
NME reports that the expanded 20th-anniversary edition of The Black Parade came out on Friday 23 October with six bonus tracks, including previously unreleased recordings from a 2007 show in Hoboken, New Jersey. The same report recalls NME's original 9/10 review, which praised the album's theatrical ambition and placed it alongside American Idiot, Doolittle and Nevermind. NME cites that review in its coverage of the film.NME 报道，《The Black Parade》的20周年扩展版于10月23日星期五发行，收录六首附加曲目，其中包括2007年新泽西 Hoboken 一场演出的未发表录音。同一篇报道回顾了 NME 当年给出的9/10评分，称它赞扬了这张专辑的戏剧野心，并把它与《American Idiot》《Doolittle》《Nevermind》并列。NME 在报道这部短片时引用了那次评论。
Gerard Way has told fans that the band hopes to make another record, NME reports, with no plans confirmed. He said: "We’ve kind of really always wanted to make another record, so we hope that life allows us to do that." It is the only statement from the band about new music in either report. Neither report gives a release date or a tracklist for a new album. Nor does either one confirm further screenings after 31 October, or say whether the band plans to mark the anniversary once the Hollywood Bowl run ends. Related coverage on this site includes Noah Kahan's 2027 tour, Powderfinger's 2027 reunion dates and Cheap Trick's touring break.NME 报道，Gerard Way 告诉歌迷，乐队希望能再做一张专辑，但目前没有确认任何计划。他说：“我们其实一直很想再做一张唱片，希望生活允许我们这么做。”这是两家报道中唯一一处乐队成员谈到新音乐的表述。两家报道都没有给出新专辑的发行日期或曲目，也没有确认10月31日之后是否还有放映。两家报道也都没有说明，Hollywood Bowl 这几场演出结束之后，乐队是否还有纪念这张专辑的安排。本站相关阅读包括Noah Kahan 2027年巡演、Powderfinger 2027年重聚演出与Cheap Trick 暂停巡演。
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