As a collector of swords, and being among a group who loves swords, ones that are a bit out of the norm are to be expected.A friend of mine loves katanas, and has diligently studied and worked with them, and figured he might get one as part of a cosplay outfit, and to do some training exercises with.The blade to him seemed to be an alright blade, minus a stupid comment on "how can you use it?" by a friend, it felt right in the hands, and looked very nice.However, the sword is missing the crucial blood groove and the dragon in the wrapping is not the advertised dragon color.+Overall it matches probably about the price you could pay for something like this versus the price.-Watch it because unless we got a defect or one someone just didn't look at it was completely missing the blood groove, and have the wrong colored dragon in the wrapping.