Cobra Kai Season 6 Release Dates Revealed: How Does A Legacy End?

With its upcoming sixth season, the legacy of The Karate Kid starts to come to a showstopping end with the final installment of episodes from its spinoff sequel series, Cobra Kai.

But, rather than offering all of the episodes at once, Netflix is leaning into its recent scheme of breaking up its seasons, which means that Cobra Kai's extended fifteen-episode season will drop episodes on three separate dates, which include Part 1 releasing on Thursday, July 18th, Part 2 releasing on Thursday, November 28th, and the "finale event" which will premiere at some time in 2025.

In a world of reboots, remakes, and sequel series, Cobra Kai has found a distinct and significant role for itself, showing itself as a solid and exciting series along with being a justified spinoff.

Where The Karate Kid films may have dipped in storytelling, Cobra Kai unravels the curtain, strongly remembering its history and then surpassing it with character development and discussions about the significance of karate and the origins of how different styles and teachers have influenced the students searching for self-defense methods.

Johnny Lawrence, who is barely anything more than a one-note villain in The Karate Kid, is offered much more character development, depth, and exploration in a series that allows him to contemplate the realities of what Cobra Kai had taught him, and how to hold onto the beneficial lessons while transforming them into a healthier presentation of what karate is and can be.

Daniel LaRusso, who had always been the hero of the story, gets the opportunity to spiral down the rabbit hole of allowing the show to frame him in a different light while he desperately tries to save the show's teenage leads from undergoing the destructive behavior that John Kreese and Terry Silver inflicted on their students.

Cobra Kai remembers the importance of Mr. Miyagi's lessons and Daniel's morals, while also giving him room to understand the usefulness of an offensive karate strategy. Meanwhile, Johnny Lawrence comes to have a better grasp of defensive techniques. Their willingness to come together allows them both, and their students, including Miguel, Hawk, Sam, and Robby, along with others, to be better fighters as they master two opposing views of karate and find a way to blend them into one style.

For the first time in Cobra Kai's run, most of the show's series regulars stand together, united, in preparation to participate in the Sekai Taikai, the world's championship of karate.

Cobra Kai has been filled with a cast and crew who have helped elevate the legacy of The Karate Kid, and it is only a matter of time before it is revealed how the story ends for these beloved characters.