Kling 2.6 turns prompts into 10s anime battles – 45s reels stress‑test continuity

Kling 2.6 quietly leveled up this week from “nice anime demo” to actual previs engine. New Attack on Titan–style tests show a single paragraph prompt yielding 10‑second, city‑scale set‑pieces with spiraling aerial moves, debris hits, and cameras that track like a Steadicam instead of a drunk drone. A 45‑second mashup pushes continuous combat until you can see where faces start to drift, which is exactly the kind of failure mode storyboarders need to plan around. One creator even shipped a Coke‑style Christmas spot in under 24 hours by pairing Nano Banana Pro for boards with Kling for animation.

The bigger shift is sound and direction. Native audio is now carrying full dialogue scenes, not only shouted battle barks: a quiet two‑hander in a moody room lets Kling draft both sides of the conversation and temp pacing straight from stills. On the control side, people are chaining GPT‑5.2 as “screenwriter” to spit out detailed cinematic prompts while Kling plays “director,” moving effort up to intent and beats instead of micro‑prompt tweaking.

And if you’re worried Kling is locked into shonen chaos, a properly Lynchian surreal clip—slow cameras, off‑kilter party room, puppet‑adjacent faces—shows the same engine bending toward art‑house weird. LTXStudio’s Retake now complements this by rewriting up to 20 seconds of finished footage, so the emerging workflow is clear: let models draft the scene, then keep punching it in post.