Synopsis
Loading (新世界加载中) is an anthology of seven standalone short films, each telling a different story and tackling a different social or human theme, so there is no single linear plot. The press material names the episodes as Sweet Dreams (redemption), Traveler and the Tiger (companionship), Martin Syndrome (paternal love), The Galactic Gut (a satire of "progress"), The Utopia Taoyuan (human desires), Unforgivable (war) and Ambivalence (AI ethics). The Chinese-language coverage lists the seven as Taoyuan (桃源), Martin Syndrome (马丁症), Sweet Dreams (祝你做个好梦), The Unheld Wedding of the Tiger and the Traveler (虎与旅行者那尚未举行的婚礼), Cosmic Intestines (宇宙肥肠), Logs (圆木) and I'm Hesitating (我在犹豫).
The Utopia Taoyuan, the episode most of the English-language uploads centre on, is an Eastern fantasy set during the famine at the end of the Ming dynasty. A ruined world gives way to a hidden village that offers refuge, but the trailer asks whether the sanctuary is a trap of desire, and the story's second chapter says the trials there were never salvation, only temptation, as truths surface and desire turns deadly. A Chinese report describes it as an examination of the struggle between good and evil within human desire, mixing realism and fantasy with many ensemble scenes.
Martin Syndrome follows a man who wakes up in a new body every day while his heart stays the same; its upload says he lost his daughter. Traveler and the Tiger is a story of a woman and a tiger, in which trust grows in the wild but betrayal waits beyond. The anthology as a whole moves between science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and absurd comedy, and the press material says the films are rendered in claymation, cyberpunk and photorealistic 3D-animation looks.
Last Updated 3 November 2026
About the Show
Loading, titled 新世界加载中 in China (the New World Loading series), is billed as the world's first AI-made anthology series. Its press release describes seven short films from Kling AI, Kuaishou's AI video platform, and the creative studio Outliers; Chinese reports say Kuaishou's Xingmang Short Drama unit co-produced it. A pilot went online in early February 2025, Beijing hosted the premiere on 25 June 2025, and Xinhua reported in August 2025 that the series had wrapped with more than 1.37 billion online views across platforms. No runtime is stated, and the episodes run from about two minutes for a trailer to around twenty minutes for a director's cut.
The makers say Kling AI generated every episode. Per the press release, the model helped hold character consistency, lip-sync accuracy and action sequences, and Outliers said it cut costs while opening styles the team could not make by hand. A Chinese trade report on the pilot adds that style ratios were tuned for one episode and that storyboards were combined with dynamic previsualisation for the action in Sweet Dreams. None of the pages names a specific Kling model version. Kling AI's head of product and operations, Li Yang, told Yicai the technology is still at an early stage and that creators must repeatedly rewrite prompts rather than getting a result in one click, and he described a "human + AI" production model.
Outliers' spokesperson Chen Xiangyu is quoted in the release; the pages do not credit a director for any episode. The series reached YouTube through the Kling AI channel, which posted the intro video (about 2.4 million views when read), trailers and full episodes for several of the films, and through a smaller Outliers channel. Kuaishou's Xingmang head Zhang Lanlan said the run showed AI's potential in film and television, moving between romance, suspense or sci-fi, and absurd comedy.
Reception in the pages is mixed. Yicai observed inconsistent character portrayal and vague emotional expression, and a Chinese outlet noted that some teaser settings resemble Love, Death & Robots and that expressions and movements still looked mechanical. Kling AI cited the series as a showcase for its model, and Yicai noted that independent analysis site Artificial Analysis ranked Kling second in text-to-video behind Google's Veo.
Audience sentiment
What the comments say
34 comments about the show on YouTube · updated 20 Oct 2026
61%
positive
Score = positive ÷ all scored comments
Sentiment split
- Positive
- 21 comments
- 61%
- Mixed
- 5 comments
- 15%
- Negative
- 8 comments
- 24%
Viewers of the trailer and episodes split between excitement at the visual style and doubts about lip-sync, coherence and emotional depth.
Top themes
“WoW! gives that "Love , Death & Robots" vibe, I'm in!”
“Cool we get 7 cinematic episodes of it”
“Very nice visuals, but lip-sync needs some major improvements.”
“The art style changes every 2 seconds, and there are cuts every second, it doesnt even make sense”
“I'm glad you're trying Anime. I want to know more about how Kling does with Anime facial expressions & lip-sync.”
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Fun Facts
- Models
- Chinese trade coverage of the February 2025 pilot says Kling AI was used to create all seven episodes, with lip-sync matched to dialogue in I'm Hesitating.
- Source: news.pedaily.cn
- Reach
- Xinhua reported in August 2025 that the series wrapped with more than 1.37 billion online views across platforms, per its producers.
- Source: news.cn
- Limits stated
- Kling AI's head of product and operations says generating video is still early and needs repeated prompt rewrites, not a one-click result.
- Source: www2.yicaiglobal.com
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