Fan debts of Netflix suggests and films are a part of the lifeblood of the lengthy-time period fulfillment of any display. Cobra Kai isn’t anyt any exception, with a slew of social media debts, web sites and YouTube Channels assisting organically sell the display. One fan account, however, has long past one step similarly and produced a hard and fast of cartoons for the display that have been launched onto YouTube today.
Cobra Kai Kid is a a success YouTube channel that’s accumulated near 30 million perspectives on YouTube and has a devoted subscriber base of properly over 200,000.
The channel is complete of content material on all matters Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. You’ll discover interviews with the forged and team of the display (my non-public preferred is an interview with the display’s creators), dissections of episodes and trailers, information coverage, and plenty extra.
Today (July 1st), Cobra Kai Kid in collaboration with Fightin’Flix have launched 3 cartoons primarily based totally at the display.
Episode 1 offers us a study a probable opportunity finishing for the fourth season of the display, episode 2 sees Martin Kove auditioning for the function of Kreese many moons in the past and the 1/3 episode sees Johnny and Daniel attending therapy.
We were given to talk to the Cobra Kai Kid on his channel’s origin, the brand new cartoons, what he’s searching ahead to in season five and what’s next.
Q: Can you introduce your self a touch? How lengthy have you ever been jogging the Cobra Kai Kid Channel now? How did the channel come approximately?
My call is Drew and I even have a YouTube channel referred to as Cobra Kai Kid in which I make content material primarily based totally on The Karate Kid films and the Cobra Kai collection. I had been jogging the channel for approximately 3 years now. The channel passed off after I found out how passionate I become approximately the Cobra Kai universe however had no person to percentage it with. It become the summer time season of 2019, I become already making sketches and brief movies on YouTube so I idea why now no longer make a Cobra Kai channel and percentage my ardour and creativity there.
When I first made the channel, I knew I desired to create a platform that become particular and that could surely display folks who I am and what I cherished to do. Ever considering the fact that I become a touch kid, I even have continually had a ardour for filmmaking and I could continually make movies whether or not it become on my own or with my friends. So with Cobra Kai Kid, I can now integrate my loves which can be Cobra Kai and filmmaking. Looking returned, making the channel become one of the great selections of my life.
Q: You’ve interviewed plenty of the forged and team over time for the channel, what are the largest highlights? Which one is your preferred interview?
One of the highlights for me of getting the YouTube channel is being capable of do interviews with the forged and team of Cobra Kai and Karate Kid. As of proper now I even have over forty interviews on my channel inclusive of a few in-character interviews.
I recognize this could be the cliche solution however the reality is, each interview I do is so unique and I virtually cherish them all. Whether I’m interviewing a person who has simplest regarded in a single scene from the display, or whether or not they have got regarded in each episode of each season, I continually experience getting to talk to those public figures and studying them on a miles deeper level. I’m additionally so intrigued with the ‘behind-the-scenes’ procedure of a tv display and what is going into the making of Cobra Kai so attending to interview all and sundry who has labored at the display as a innovative force, may be very significant to me.
Q: What are you maximum searching ahead to seeing in Cobra Kai season five?
I am genuinely searching ahead to loads of various things in Cobra Kai Season five. I’m very enthusiastic about the Mexico plotline with Miguel, Robby, and Johnny. That ought to be a surely thrilling arc and I’m very excited to peer in which they go along with that. I additionally can’t wait to peer Terry Silver enlarge extra Cobra Kai dojos across the Valley. Don’t get me wrong, I love Daniel and Chozen, however there’s some thing approximately the horrific men being on top of things that is lots extra fun.
I’m additionally surely excited to peer what goes on with Kreese. We recognize he’s in jail and probable looking for revenge for what Silver did to him. My huge concept for Cobra Kai Season five is that Kreese will crew up with Daniel and Johnny as soon as he receives out of jail to take down Terry Silver. If that had been to happen, I could move crazy! I surely desire it does!
Q: Can you speak approximately the Kai’Toons undertaking? How did it come approximately? How many human beings are running on it?
When I first began out making Cobra Kai movies returned in 2019, one of the first Cobra Kai creators I met become Jean Kirk. He has a YouTube channel referred to as FightinFlix in which he designs and animates Cobra Kai and Karate Kid characters and makes little sketches with them.
Growing up, I watched loads of suggests which includes SpongeBob and Total Drama Island so I’ve continually cherished cartoons and animations. I additionally love writing my very own scripts and developing my very own tales so I idea why now no longer integrate my love for storytelling and my love for Cobra Kai.
So in March of 2022, I reached out to Jean approximately doing a Cobra Kai lively collection on my channel in which every episode could take characters from Cobra Kai and The Karate Kid and placed them in exceptional storylines. I could write all the episodes and he could do all of the animating and designing. Jean got here up with the call Kai’Toons which I idea become tremendous for this undertaking.
It took us approximately four months to make three episodes.
This is the primary time I even have ever labored on a undertaking like this and it has genuinely taught me a lot. A lot of difficult paintings and time has long past into those animations and I suppose we’ve surely created some thing unique.
This collection celebrates the characters and the tales of Cobra Kai and Karate Kid in a acquainted however particular way. One of the best information about this collection is that a number of the actors from the Cobra Kai collection voice a number of the characters in Kai’Toons. I’m so pleased with this undertaking and if human beings love Kai’Toons, we can maintain to make extra!
Q: What are your destiny plans for the channel?
My plan for the channel is to simply hold evolving and making the great content material that I can make. Making movies is my ardour and I will continually be pleased about the enthusiasts who help me and what I do. I continually try to undertaking myself to be a higher filmmaker and content material author with each new undertaking that I make.
Over the beyond three years, the channel has surely grown and so have I. The intention is to hold growing, hold learning, hold getting higher, and I can’t wait to peer what the destiny has in store!
Q: As we ask in all of our interviews, past Cobra Kai – what else do you want looking on Netflix?
Besides re-looking Cobra Kai hundreds of thousands of times, I love Stranger Things as it takes location in my preferred era, the 80s. It is also a display with remarkable writing and a remarkable forged. Manifest is some other incredible display that I am interested in due to the thriller factor and again, the writing in that display is incredible.
I even have continually been a huge fan of Full House so I additionally surely loved the sequel collection, Fuller House. I idea that they did a remarkable task of bringing returned that tale and the identical characters from the authentic collection. I’ve additionally surely loved looking the Netflix authentic movies which includes The Hustle, Amateur, and He’s All That. I can’t anticipate extra Netflix suggests and films to binge withinside the destiny!