Filo Shinobu Kamado

Anyone who has watched a demon-slaying anime will know this silhouette on sight: the slim, single-edged Nichirin-style katana that the hunters carry, with its squared guard, bound grip and long, shallow-curved blade running to a fine point. It is a prop sword rather than a weapon. The intended life of it is a costume, a wall rack or a display stand beside a shelf of figures, and the shape does the work — it reads as the right blade from across a convention hall, which is all a cosplay prop is ever asked to do. Photographs are where these earn their keep, and the profile holds up in them. Useful to costume builders assembling a character loadout, and to collectors who want the swords of a favourite cast lined up on a wall rather than the figures in a cabinet.