Plans have been announced by Netflix for the final season (Season 6) of its popular Cobra Kai series. The streaming service will offer 15 episodes in three blocks of five episodes each, to be shown on July 18, November 28, and on a yet-undisclosed date in 2025.

According to the official release, Season 6 will pick up from where Season 5 left off, with Cobra Kai having been driven out of the valley, and “our senseis and students must decide if and how they will compete in the Sekai Taikai — the world championships of karate.”

Reprising their roles in the final episodes will be Ralph Macchio, William Zabka, Martin Kove, and Yuji Okumoto. Also starring in Season 6 will be Xolo Maridueña, Jacob Bertrand, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List, Gianni DeCenzo, Courtney Henggeler, Vanessa Rubio, Dallas Dupree Young, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Griffin Santopietro, and Oona O’Brien.

 

A continuation of The Karate Kid movie franchise. Cobra Kai was originally seen exclusively on YouTube in 2018. The series moved to Netflix with Season 3 in 2021. It had been announced back in 2023 that this would be the last season for the popular series. At the time, the show’s creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg issued a statement that the final episodes would represent the “biggest season of Cobra Kai yet.”

“Reacquainting the world with The Karate Kid universe has been our humble honor,” they continued. “Making Cobra Kai has allowed us to join the same hallowed dojo once inhabited by the great Robert Mark Kamen, John Avildsen, Jerry Weintraub, and all the amazing original cast members. It has also enabled us to play sensei, expanding the original storylines and birthing a new generation of underdogs. We’ve never once taken this opportunity for granted.”

Speaking of the decision to end the series, Heald told The Hollywood Reporter: “We wanted to go out on our own terms. … Between seasons five and six, we approached Netflix and said, ‘We’re ready to bring this in for a landing.’ We told them the story that we wanted to tell, and they supported the decision. It’s always been a good relationship with Sony and Netflix. ,,,We left the door open to revisit storylines that we are going to resolve in season six, and we just felt like there’s value in not leaving the series bone dry.”

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