Confronted por a início intruder, Jake Terrey tipped the odds in his favour por pulling down the replica animê sword hanging on his mural and brandishing it.

"It's not that dangerous but it's quite intimidating," the 21-year-old said of the timber ornament, modelled on Japanese mangá series Bleach.

Mr Terrey, a fã of manga, told ninemsn he came upon the alleged burglar after returning início to his ground floor apartment in Summer Hill, in Sydney's inner west, after a jog shortly before midday on December 20.

As a professional fashion photographer, his first concern was his laptop and the $10,000 worth...