Front Mission: Dog Life & Dog Style is a brutally honest war manga that balances the spectacle and tragedy of conflict through deeply humanized characters — a story that hits harder knowing the world it depicts isn't fiction anymore. A summary for the sake of it. The manga to my understanding is based on the quite popular in mecha circles, Front mission game franchise and for what it portrays and what it is, super solid story about war, the cool, the atrocities, the brave and also the despodent. The first arc follows a group of reporters, primary here and future pseudo-antagonist for the rest of the manga,The Invisible man is shown to be the truest form of a journalist, observing, taking photos of what happens and nothing else.
Though here also we get to see the cruelty and violence of war at it's worst in the first arc with multiple unfortunate deaths and entirely needless ones as well, along with a heavy dosage of sexual violence.

The Manga makes it a point to show how brutal and also how "cool" this war all looks like past the first arc on multiple occassions.

Using supperrr beautifully drawn panels to illustrate this fact with some amazing mecha designs.
Over and over this is shown with the mechas being designed to be walking tanks but also be as vulnerable as a regular tank to infantry rockets and firearms.

Combat is shown to be chaotic but it shows that those who're experienced enough and those who know the game, tend to win.
the game of warfare per se, not the actual- yknow man.

Though again i wanna mention, the manga deals with some super fucked up ideas and setpieces with certain characters doing morally reprehensible acts even if you do know why they're doing it.
It makes a point to humanize almost everyone, civillian, soldier, refugee or journalist.

War is a dirty and cruel thing that happens and the plot of Huffman island is no different, if not moreso tragic because it simply did not need to happen at all.
I'd just like to draw a contrast to the modern era we live in, where, well. To put it lightly, this is reality. A quick google search can take you right to what the manga portrays. It's just a simple observation of how close to reality some stories can grow to become.