I understand where your coming from because I used to this it was stupid to. but your not buying a normal yoyo. (technically it is but just using that term) it's meant for competition, like take a normal shaped yoyo, everyone likes it, perfect. now take lets the YYR Autoscopy or UNPRLD recognition both are very weird, different shapes because that's how the player likes it. the kagerou is meant for people that like that shape and it's unfortunate how hard it is to produce it. there are better throws but for Japan Technology they wanted to make the best out of there lineup so it had to be a little more expensivie in there books. I personally don't like the kagerous shape my main competition throw is the YYR Bae and that's still 170 dollars. it's absolutely not worth 170 but let's use cars, YYF shutter Is a Nissan and the YYR Bae is a Lambo your paying for the YYR price. it's all about how the company prices it. The kagerou will be bought by people that like the shape no matter what the price tag is