Retro Manga Helicopter Infiltration

Goal: Create a vertical black-and-white manga page in an older military sci-fi style, with thick black panel borders, gritty ink texture, high-contrast screentone shading, flat cinematic compositions, and a slightly retro war-comic atmosphere.

Canvas: Tall portrait manga page, roughly 9:16 aspect ratio. Use monochrome grayscale with only very subtle muted red accent lights inside the aircraft. Add weathered paper grain, scratches, smoke, and heavy blacks.

Layout: Use exactly 4 horizontal comic panels stacked vertically, separated by thick white gutters and heavy black borders.

Panel 1: Wide establishing shot over a devastated urban battlefield at night. A military helicopter flies above a ruined city full of burning buildings, smoke columns, rubble silhouettes, and distant mountains. Above the helicopter is a large glowing circular rotor blur or halo-like light trail. Place one square white narration box at upper left containing the Japanese text 「敵支配領域 侵入」.

Panel 2: Narrow action panel showing an extreme close-up of the helicopter fuselage and cockpit from the side, with rain-like speed lines and harsh reflected highlights. Place one white rectangular caption box on the right containing two lines: 「作戦コード：」 and “GLASS VEIL”.

Panel 3: Narrow interior panel inside the helicopter, showing exactly 9 visible identical anime-style female android soldiers in a dark row, facing forward with serious expressions. They have long pale hair, tactical collars, and shadowed faces. Add a white oval speech bubble in the center foreground containing 「AO進入。」.

Panel 4: Large bottom panel inside the cargo hold of the helicopter, drawn in one-point perspective down the central aisle. Show exactly 16 visible identical female artificial-life soldiers seated in two opposing rows, 8 on the left and 8 on the right. They are young anime women with long {argument name="hair color" default="pale silver-blonde"} hair, calm emotionless eyes, black tactical jackets, chest rigs, gloves, thigh straps, boots, and compact military gear. The foreground soldier on each side is largest, with the rows receding toward the rear door. Overhead lights create small muted red highlights. Place a centered white rectangular narration box near the top reading “Vita Simulata” on the first line and 「人工生命歩兵群。」 on the second line.

Subject details: The soldiers are clone-like and uniform, with porcelain pale faces, straight bangs, long hair, and stoic expressions. The helicopter interior is industrial, cramped, metallic, and dark, with rivets, panels, cables, benches, and a reflective central floor track.

Visual style: Japanese manga ink illustration, heavy black fills, dense hatching, screentone gradients, dramatic noir lighting, smoke and grit, retro 1980s war-comic influence mixed with modern anime character design. Keep all text crisp, black on white boxes, and preserve the Japanese text exactly as written.

Constraints: Use exactly 4 panels, exactly 4 text elements, exactly 9 visible soldiers in panel 3, and exactly 16 visible seated soldiers in panel 4. No color except faint red interior light accents. No watermark, no extra captions, no extra speech bubbles.