Contradiction regarding Mr. Miyagi's age

In Season 3 Episode 4 of Cobra Kai, about 20 minutes in, Daniel says that he is currently the same age that Mr. Miyagi was when they met:

Throughout the series it is clear that the current events take place 30 years after the original events. Even granting that those events might have spanned a couple of years, Daniel couldn't have met Mr. Miyagi more than 32-33 years or so ago. Given that he was in his mid teens at the time, that would make him most probably in his mid to late 40s, at most 50.

Yet in Season 1 Episode 5, at about 25 minutes in, Daniel visits Mr. Miyagi's grave and the tombstone clearly shows that Mr. Miyagi was born in 1925:

That would have made Mr. Miyagi around 60 at the time he met Daniel in the mid 1980s (according to the opening scene in Season 1 the match against Johnny occurred at the end of 1984), making him a good 10-15 years older than Daniel is during the current events of the series.

How can this contradiction be explained?

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Best Answer

According to many online sources (this one for example)

Daniel was born in New Jersey on December 18, 1966

so he is almost 41 years younger than Mr Myiagi. In 1984 he was 18 years old and Mr Myiagi would be indeed 59. (At the time of the tournament, which is in summer, Daniel would still be 17).

The Cobra Kai series starts in 2018, so 34 years after they met.

37 years later (which is now, 2021) Daniel is 55 years old so he is only wrong by around 4 years, close enough to say "we're the same age".

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How old was Mr. Miyagi when met Daniel?

Miyagi was 59 when he met Daniel LaRusso and, ten years later, Julie Pierce also became her student. While it hasn't been canonically shown in Cobra Kai, it's possible Daniel and Julie finally met at Mr. Miyagi's funeral after their sensei died on November 15, 2011.

What age was Mr. Miyagi?

Mr. MiyagiBornJune 9, 1925DiedNovember 15, 2011 (aged 86)In-universe informationAliasNariYoshi Miyagi, Keisuke Miyagi, Hideo Miyagi22 more rows

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