I'm just about through Scooby-doo Mystery Inc, and they lean a bit on Mayan/Aztec storylines -- what a wonderfully evocative era that seems to have absolutely no hold on mainstream culture! Were there any Manga artists that glommed onto it? Western would be cool too, unless it's about gay Mayans (etc)
As a side-note, French comics (Bande dessinee) had a bunch of wonderful south american stuff, but the one torrent that collected thousands of them seems to be dead.
The problem with portraying Mezoamericans in cartoons is you really have gloss over their tendency to carve the still-beating hearts out of people, including their own children.
Eh, Churchill starved millions of (dot) Indians to death, but I can still watch Sharpe's War.
Winston Churchill
Not Manga but...Emporers New Groove
Tangentially-related is Apocalypto. Good movie if you haven't yet seen it.
Apocalypto is great!
It's not manga but I'm pretty sure at least one of the TinTin comics had meso stuff in it.
Ah, yeah, TinTin had a few books like that -- they were wonderful. The series in Peru was particularly evocative. As I mentioned, French comics tackled this topic very well, but they're no longer 'available'.
Nazca: Dimensional Transfer
...acquiring
The Mysterious Cities Of Gold.
Thank you!
A recent anime, To Your Eternity may scratch that itch a little bit. It's the story of an immortal shape-shifter who very slowly grows and learns (mostly it learns that life is brutal). Season 1 is set in a vaguely Pacific, vaguely ancient era, and touches on multiple types of cultures. I didn't watch season 2 yet though it wrapped a few months ago.
Ah, thanks -- and this has a manga, which I prefer to anime.
I know it's not a manga and not necessarily Mayan/Aztec related, but you might enjoy Inca and Inca II: Wiracocha, which are basically sci-fi Inca-based games.
Not going to bother trying to explain the complexity of them here, but I loved Inca II especially. It takes some serious twists and turns you just won't see coming and combines classic PC-style point-and-click puzzle solving with Tie Fighter/X-Wing style space combat. It's a visually crazy game and was just one of the many titles out back then that combined completely unique elements together into a very original story. Well worth checking out if you can stomach the old-school FMV sequences and visuals.