High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bizenghast is an ongoing original English-language (OEL) manga series written and illustrated by M. Alice LeGrow. It is currently being published in North America by Tokyopop, which has released seven volumes as of July 2010, and is expected to conclude with the eighth book. After placing in Tokyopop`s Rising Stars of Manga competition, LeGrow won an opportunity to have a manga series published by Tokyopop; Bizenghast is her debut series. Set in the haunted New England town of Bizenghast, the story follows an orphaned teenage girl who is tasked with returning each night to an ancient mausoleum to free the ghosts within the building.