Warning: SPOILERS for Cobra Kai Season 6, Part 2Cobra Kai Season 6, Part 2 brings a potential romance between Chozen Toguchi (Yuji Okumoto) and Kumiko (Tamlyn Tomita) to a disappointing end. Chozen and Kumiko are legacy characters introduced in The Karate Kid Part II. Kumiko was Daniel LaRusso’s (Ralph Macchio) love interest, while Chozen made Daniel-san his sworn enemy. Kumiko and Chozen have returned Cobra Kai season 3, and both Okinawans are firmly on Daniel’s side.
Daniel enlisted Chozen’s help against Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) and brought his fellow Miyagi-Do sensei to California in Cobra Kai season 5. Chozen became Miyago-Do’s third sensei alongside Daniel-san and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka), but Chozen also revealed that he is in love with Kumikoa torch he has carried since the 1980s. At the end of Cobra Kai Season 6, Part 1, Chozen decided to return to Okinawa and win Kumiko’s heart.
Cobra Kai Season 6 Ending for Chozen and Kumiko Is Disappointing
Chozen is heartbroken by an absent Kumiko
Chozen, heartbroken and drunk, meets Daniel and Johnny in Barcelona for the Sekai Taikai tournament in Cobra Kai Season 6, Episode 6, “Benvinguts a Barcelona”, and Toguchi reveals that Kumiko is seeing another man. Chozen recounts how he brought flowers to Kumiko, only to be greeted by a man in a towel at the door of her house. “Towel Man” then called Kumiko, who he said was in the shower. Chozen slipped away and drowned his sorrows until the Sekai Taikai.
Chozen and Kumiko make an intriguing romantic pairing that also makes sense given their long history dating back to The Karate Kid Part II. Cobra Kai Season 3 revealed that Chozen had changed since his bitter and angry youth, and he befriended Kumiko. But Chozen not winning Kumiko’s heart is a disappointment, and was played by an embarrassingly awkward comedy that made Chozen look like a fool. Tamlyn Tomita also did not appear in Cobra KaiSeason 6, which is disappointing since Kumiko hasn’t been seen since season 3.
Cobra Kai Season 6 Offers a New Love Interest for Chozen
Will Chozen and Sensei Kim have a relationship in Cobra Kai?
Cobra Kai Season 6, Part 2 didn’t cater to Chozen and Kumiko’s romantic scenario because the show surprisingly had another love interest for Toguchi: Sensei Kim Da-Eun (Alicia Hannah-Kim). Sensei Kim and Chozen were surprised by the romantic sparks between them while searching Barcelona for their teenage students in Cobra Kai Season 6, Episode 8, ‘Snakes on a Plane’. After beating up two drunk tourists who were hitting on Kim, the Miyagi-Do and Cobra Kai senseis got together.
Kim has more in common with Chozen than with Kumiko.
Chozen and Sensei Kim even fought side by side against Russian senseis from the Tiger Strike dojo in Cobra Kai Season 6, episode 10’s wild fight. The question is whether this is just flirting between Chozen and Kim, or whether they are meant to be together. Kim has more in common with Chozen than Kumiko, and Da-Eun also shows signs of wanting freedom from Cobra Kai. It would be a shame if Kumiko didn’t show up Cobra Kai final episodes of season 6, but Chozen and Kim are an odd couple that might make more sense.