Are you ready for one last tournament, karate fans?

On Feb. 13, the final five episodes of the Emmy-nominated Cobra Kai drop on Netflix. Enemies-turned-allies Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Machcio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) will have to work together one more time to help their eager Miyagi-Do students finish what they started at the Sekai Taikai tournament earlier this season.

Though the finals were interrupted in episode 10 after Kwon (Brandon H. Lee) fell on a knife smuggled in by Kreese (Martin Kove) and died, the latest trailer reveals that the Sekai Taikai is back on — and it’s taking place in the Valley. But not everyone is happy about it. “Johnny and Daniel feel differently about it,” says Hayden Schlossberg, who created Cobra Kai with Jon Hurwitz and Josh Heald. “Daniel wants to forget about it and move on as quickly as possible.”

Good luck with that, Daniel-san. EW asked the Cobra Kai showrunners to preview what else fans can expect in the final five episodes, including Kreese’s guilt over Kwon’s death, Amanda’s (Courtney Henggeler) transformation into a “karate war mom,” and why using Joe Esposito’s “Your the Best” in the final trailer was an absolutely “necessity.”

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Give us a preview of where Johnny and Daniel’s heads are at as they head into this final tournament.

HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG: Well, their heads are in a crazy place coming out of the brawl at the Sekai Taikai. Seeing that a student died has kind of thrown the whole tournament into doubt. Johnny and Daniel feel differently about it. Daniel wants to forget about it and move on as quickly as possible, and Johnny is now very unfulfilled and unsatisfied, having thought that he’d have a second shot at a title and besting his enemy, Kreese. It’s Kreese’s fault that there was a knife at the tournament, so there’s a lot of anger and unresolved issues for Johnny.

Speaking of Kreese, we see a glimpse of him in the trailer as well, at Kwon’s funeral. What can you tell us about where his story goes this season?

JON HURWITZ: The Kreese at the beginning of season 6 was the most venomous version of Kreese that we’ve seen. He’s always had a little bit of a soft spot for Johnny in his mind, even if he’s done some rough things over the years. To him, he always felt like he was still being a mentor in his own twisted way. But all bets have been off this year with his hatred towards Johnny and Daniel. He was volatile, and that anger boiled over to him bringing the knife to the tournament — which led to it falling out and his own student getting killed. So, Kreese is in a whole different place as we enter [these final five episodes], where he’s recognizing that his student who he recently took on and was mentoring, died with a knife that he brought. It kind of rocks Kreese’s world in a way that nothing else has up until this point. And he’s trying to figure out where to go from here.

We also get some tantalizing glimpses in the trailer of Johnny and Daniel apparently training together, doing the crane kick. Has hell frozen over? What’s happening here?

JOSH HEALD: Well, it would be very spoilery to give too much context to those fun moments of them training together, but I will say it was some of the most fun we’ve ever had shooting with them. Any time we get the shoot in Los Angeles, in the Valley, it’s always special because the Valley is a character on this show that is very important. We do a pretty good job, hopefully, of doubling the Valley in Atlanta — but getting to do things in actual Los Angeles, on the beach, on Ventura Boulevard and seeing these guys have that kind of moment, is tremendously special for us.

Fans also really loved the moment in the trailer with Amanda with her face painted and screaming for Robby to “kick some ass”! Will Amanda LaRusso finally become a karate maniac in these final episodes?  

SCHLOSSBERG: We love playing with Amanda’s arc in terms of how she’s dealing with the karate wars around her. In that first season, it was really just, “What is going on?” She was the civilian in the whole war, and every time we saw it from her perspective, you saw how ridiculous everything was. But as the seasons have gone on and her children are more and more caught up in the karate wars, she’s a karate war mom, and now she gets it. Now she understands, by the final season, why karate is such a life-or-death situation.

The trailer was set to the most indelible Karate Kid anthem of all, Joe Esposito’s “You’re the Best.” How hard was it waiting seven years to use that song in a trailer?

HURWITZ: Well, with having this final trailer, it was important to all of us that it was not just a trailer for the final five episodes, but a trailer really for the series, dating back to 1984 as a whole. We’ve come a long way. These final five episodes are not just the culmination of Cobra Kai, they’re the culmination of a rivalry that started in 1984 that people all over the world fell in love with — ourselves included. So having “You’re the Best” in that trailer felt like it was a necessity.

Did you guys secure the rights to that song back in 2018 when you first started this show?

HEALD: We started talking with Joe Esposito probably back then. We couldn’t have been more excited to start reaching out to people and anybody associated with the Karate Kid, but the feeling was mutual. The moment the show got announced, they started reaching out to us also. With Joe, we got put in touch and I think he was just tickled that this world was coming back. That was always a very special song for him, and he’s licensed it plenty over the years to be used in various sporting contexts.

We got an opportunity with our composers, Zach [Robinson] and Leo [Birenberg], to meet him and see him perform and bring him to some fan events. I thought being on stage and getting to sing background vocals to Joe was going to be the best around — but getting to see this epic dramatic version of it in this trailer was really special.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

The final five episodes of Cobra Kai premiere Thursday, Feb. 13, on Netflix.

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