The Wishbringer

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Does anyone know alot about the wishbringer?

If you do please post what you know.
And does anyone know what its name is in japanese?

[SpaceKnight of Chaos]

The Wishbringer Sword, Manganmaru, is a Japanese sword embedded in a stone around which a temple has grown up. Every year, they allow a number of aspiring swordsmen to attempt to pull it from the stone; whoever holds it, will be granted three wishes. Kuno manages to be the 1 millionth customer, and thus is able to draw it. Manganmaru seems to be able to grant any wish that its master desires, requiring only that they hold it aloft and concentrate on their wish. Fortunately for the world, Kuno is an idiot. He uses Manganmaru to beat Ranma (it turns into a mallet and bops him senseless), wishes for a date with the pigtailed girl (which may or may not have been spent, as Ranma was planning to trick him into curing "her" by faking a date anyway) and wastes his last wish on a commemorative statue of himself and "the pigtailed girl" at the end of said date. It's not know what happened to it after that; presumably it either lost all of its wish-granting powers permanently or was returned to the stone to "recharge". Ranma definately lamented it as a lost opportunity.

Manganmaru may or may not only grant the wishes of the person who drew it from the stone. When Genma and Ranma steal it, Genma tries to make a wish and Manganmaru punches him in the face, Ranma suggesting afterwards that it must mean only Kuno can use it. In at least the dubbed anime, though, Genma's choice of words in wishing, and Manganmaru's rejection, means the rejection may have been motivated more by Genma wishing for more wishes (often a big No-No in modern culture; you ask the Genie for more then 3 wishes, he's obligated to smack you down) then the fact it was Genma asking.

[Crescent Pulsar R]

In the manga, the sword has a sort of artificial (mechanical) voice, and when Genma tries to make a wish with it, it says that a voice check hasn't been verified. Which, to me, is a weird way of saying it, but it sounds like it recognizes who its master is according to the sound of their voice.