Cobra Kai’s final season reveals final look

By Douglas Helm | Published 17 seconds ago

Cobra Kai is finally coming to an end and Netflix has just released the new trailer for the final season. The season will be split into three parts, a first for a Netflix series, so there’s plenty of time to watch each set of five episodes. The first set of episodes drops on July 18th and it looks like we’ll be getting plenty of karate action as the senseis train their students to compete in the Sekai Taikai, also known as the World Karate Championship.

Get your first look at the final season with the latest trailer.

Cobra Kai‘s final season will release its second five-episode run on November 28, with the third installment sometime in 2025. So while the series may be coming to an end, Netflix is ​​making sure to make it feel like a true multi-month event. With Cobra Kai taken down in the Valley and the aforementioned Sekai Taikai looming, there’s a lot to get excited about.

The series is a spin-off of The Karate Kid franchise and follows Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) as he finds inspiration to reopen the Cobra Kai dojo after years of living a hopeless life.

Cobra Kai has been one of Netflix’s best-reviewed shows since it first hit the platform in 2021 (with previous seasons airing on YouTube ), and its final season looks set to end on a high note. A spin-off of The Karate Kid franchise, the series follows Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) as he finds inspiration to reopen the Cobra Kai dojo after years of living a dead-end life. Fans of the original film will recall that Johnny was defeated by Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) in the All-Valley Karate Tournament after LaRusso was trained by the late, great Mr. Miyagi.

Mr. Miyagi also appears briefly (by name) in the trailer for Cobra Kai’s final season, when they find a box that contains a secret that the sensei has apparently hidden. It’s a pretty big teaser in the trailer, so we’ll have to wait and see what that glowing box contains when the season hits Netflix. We’ll likely find out in the first five episodes, but it could also be a huge cliffhanger to set up the next batch of episodes.

While Cobra Kai will conclude with its final season in 2025, but that doesn’t mean the Karate Kid franchise is over for good.

Along with Zabka and Macchio, the cast of Cobra KaiThe final season stars Martin Kove, Xolo Mariduena, Jacob Bertrand, Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Peyton List, Gianni DeCenzo, Courtney Henggeler, Vanessa Rubio, Dallas Dupree Young, Yuji Okumoto, Alicia Hannah-Kim, Griffin Santopietro, and Oona O’Brien. Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg serve as co-showrunners and executive producers on the series. Macchio, Zabka, Will Smith, James Lassiter, Caleeb Pinkett, and Susan Ekins also serve as executive producers.

The season will be split into three parts, a first for a Netflix series, allowing plenty of time to enjoy each set of five episodes.

While Cobra Kai ends with its final season in 2025, that doesn’t mean the Karate Kid franchise is over for good. Filming has already wrapped on the next film in the Karate Kid franchise, with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan reprising their roles from previous films, along with Ben Wang, Joshua Jackson, Sadie Stanley, Ming-Na Wen, Aramis Knight, and Wyatt Oleff in new roles. That film is scheduled for release on May 30, 2025.

In other words, fans of the Karate Kid franchise have a lot to look forward to next year. Make sure you check out the first installment of Cobra Kai‘s final season when it hits Netflix on July 18. Stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated on the rest of the season and the upcoming movie.