Fan money owed of Netflix indicates 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 money owed, web sites and YouTube Channels supporting 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 gathered near 30 million perspectives on YouTube and has a faithful subscriber base of properly over 200,000.
The channel is complete of content material on all matters Karate Kid and Cobra Kai. You’ll locate 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 greater.
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 examine a likely 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 0.33 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 bit? 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 wherein 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 took place after I found out how passionate I turned into approximately the Cobra Kai universe however had no one to percentage it with. It turned into the summer time season of 2019, I turned into already making sketches and brief movies on YouTube so I notion 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 turned into specific and that might simply display individuals who I am and what I cherished to do. Ever for the reason that I turned into a bit kid, I even have usually had a ardour for filmmaking and I might usually make movies whether or not it turned into on my own or with my friends. So with Cobra Kai Kid, I can now integrate my loves which might be Cobra Kai and filmmaking. Looking lower back, making the channel turned into one of the exceptional selections of my life.
Q: You’ve interviewed tons of the forged and team over time for the channel, what are the most important 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 along with a few in-man or woman interviews.
I recognise 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 seemed in a single scene from the display, or whether or not they’ve seemed in each episode of each season, I usually revel in getting to talk to those public figures and gaining knowledge of 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 every body 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 clearly searching ahead to quite a few various things in Cobra Kai Season five. I’m very enthusiastic about the Mexico plotline with Miguel, Robby, and Johnny. That have to be a simply thrilling arc and I’m very excited to look wherein they go along with that. I additionally can’t wait to look Terry Silver amplify greater Cobra Kai dojos across the Valley. Don’t get me wrong, I love Daniel and Chozen, however there’s some thing approximately the awful men being on top of things that is lots greater fun.
I’m additionally simply excited to look what goes on with Kreese. We recognise he’s in jail and likely looking for revenge for what Silver did to him. My massive idea for Cobra Kai Season five is that Kreese will group 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 might move crazy! I simply wish it does!
Q: Can you communicate approximately the Kai’Toons task? How did it come approximately? How many human beings are running on it?
When I first began out making Cobra Kai motion pictures lower back in 2019, one of the first Cobra Kai creators I met turned into Jean Kirk. He has a YouTube channel referred to as FightinFlix wherein he designs and animates Cobra Kai and Karate Kid characters and makes little sketches with them.
Growing up, I watched quite a few indicates along with SpongeBob and Total Drama Island so I’ve usually cherished cartoons and animations. I additionally love writing my very own scripts and growing my very own testimonies so I notion 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 wherein every episode might take characters from Cobra Kai and The Karate Kid and placed them in exclusive storylines. I might write all the episodes and he might do all of the animating and designing. Jean got here up with the call Kai’Toons which I notion turned into extremely good for this task.
It took us approximately four months to make three episodes.
This is the primary time I even have ever labored on a task like this and it has clearly taught me a lot. A lot of tough paintings and time has long past into those animations and I suppose we’ve simply created some thing unique.
This collection celebrates the characters and the testimonies of Cobra Kai and Karate Kid in a acquainted however specific way. One of the good 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 task and if human beings love Kai’Toons, we can preserve to make greater!
Q: What are your destiny plans for the channel?
My plan for the channel is to simply preserve evolving and making the exceptional content material that I can make. Making motion pictures is my ardour and I will usually be glad about the lovers who aid me and what I do. I usually try to venture myself to be a higher filmmaker and content material writer with each new task that I make.
Over the beyond three years, the channel has simply grown and so have I. The intention is to preserve growing, preserve learning, preserve getting higher, and I can’t wait to look 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 terrific writing and a terrific forged. Manifest is any other excellent display that I am attracted to due to the thriller factor and again, the writing in that display is incredible.
I even have usually been a massive fan of Full House so I additionally simply loved the sequel collection, Fuller House. I notion that they did a terrific task of bringing lower back that tale and the identical characters from the authentic collection. I’ve additionally simply loved looking the Netflix authentic movies along with The Hustle, Amateur, and He’s All That. I can’t watch for greater Netflix indicates and films to binge withinside the destiny!
