After almost two years, the stage is set for Cobra Kai to go out with a bang. The Karate Kid series is set to return for Season 6, Part 1 on July 18 as Daniel LaRusso ( Ralph Macchio ) and Johnny Lawrence ( William Zabka ) look to the future. The Miyagi-Do and Eagle Fang senseis and their students have squashed past beef for the greater good to take down Terry Silver ( Thomas Ian Griffith ).
There isn’t much time to celebrate with a big challenge on the horizon in the form of the Sekai Taikai, the premiere international karate tournament. The remanence of Cobra Kai can still be felt following John Kreese ( Martin Kove ) faking his death and breaking out of prison. We haven’t seen the last of the “No Mercy” sensei, much like Kim Da-Eun ( Alicia Hannah-Kim ) who is still in the mix.
For Gianni DeCenzo , who plays the wise-cracking Demetri Alexopoulos, the series’ end marks the end of an era. The star spent many of his teenage years on set and growing alongside his character. Here DeCenzo opens up about his last day of filming and the biggest battles to come.
Has it set in that Cobra Kai ’s final season is about to premiere? Gianni DeCenzo: It really hasn’t set in too much yet. We had our big final day where we kind of wrapped one by one during the same week. I think the first ones to do wrap were me and Jacob [Bertrand ] [Eli “Hawk” Moskowitz’.
My final day was with him. I think that it set in a little bit when I went home from filming after the first month .