Cobra Kai Set for Final Season as Creators Tease More Karate Kid Coming: 'Miyagiverse Has Never Been Stronger'



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Cobra Kai's Ralph Macchio and William Zabka nevertheless person a interaction combat near successful them.

Netflix announced connected Friday that its Karate Kid bid volition spell backmost for a sixth and last season.

Creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg shared their thoughts connected the "bittersweet" choice via Instagram, teasing masses of capableness spin-offs based connected the 1984 movie postulation "down the line."

"Reacquainting the assemblage with the Karate Kid beingness has been our humble honor," they wrote. "It has enabled america to play sensei, expanding the archetypal storylines and birthing a marque caller exertion of underdogs. We've successful nary mode arsenic soon arsenic taken this accidental with nary consideration."

They persisted, "Our Day 1 purpose with Cobra Kai has perpetually been to springiness up it connected our phrases, leaving the Valley wrong the clip and spot we've got continually imagined. While this volition beryllium a bittersweet time for the fandom, the Miyagiverse has successful nary mode been stronger. This fandom is the BEST connected the satellite and we are hoping to beryllium telling other Karate Kid memories with you down the line. Because arsenic each of america recognize: Cobra Kai Never Dies."

Though nary astir due day has been announced, the teaser trailer stated fans tin number connected the "biggest" and "baddest" play but.

Season 5, which premiered successful September, brought returned galore iconic characters from the archetypal franchise, which includes villain Mike Barnes (Sean Kanan) from 1989's Karate Kid: Part III.

Cobra Kai additionally stars Xolo Maridueña, Mary Mouser, Jacob Bertrand, Tanner Buchanan, Gianni DeCenzo (Demetri), Peyton List and Courtney Henggeler.

Macchio, 61, and Zabka, 50 seven, some reprised their roles arsenic Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence, respectively. The actors spoke with PEOPLE last 12 months about their decades-lengthy friendship.

"For Billy and I, the extent and grade of our relationship and our records unneurotic has simply agelong gone past, akin to this show has," Macchio advised PEOPLE connected the time. "You're taking the nostalgia, you instrumentality the root worldly of what The Karate Kid beingness has signifier of created, and past defining it successful a full caller manner, by nary means dropping show of what it truly is."

For Zabka, moving unneurotic wrong the aforesaid Karate Kid universe has been an "honor." Though each guys had agelong gone to enlarge their careers erstwhile you see that their authentic roles, coming backmost collectively to enactment and revisit the characters turned into a "full circle" 2nd for the actors.

"We each person lives considering The Karate Kid, we some person families, we [have] each completed our careers and each that," Zabka told PEOPLE. "We're present grown up men who really get what's occurring and it's precise exciting."

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Seasons 1–5 of Cobra Kai tin beryllium streamed successful implicit connected Netflix.