**Banana Fish** \- In the first scene of the show, Ash Lynx’s brother Griffin is seen serving in Iraq, where he goes mad and starts shooting his comrades before being incapacitated by Max.

**Deep Blue Fleet** \- Iraq becomes a German ally, and the port city of Basrah is used as the main supply base for the invasion of India… somehow.

**Fate/stay night** \- We’re shown flashbacks to the hero Gilgamesh’s past in the city of Uruk.

**Great Pretender** \- Aby grew up in Iraq, and lost her parents in the American bombing of Baghdad in the Iraq War. She was radicalized and joined an Iraqi resistance militia in the country.

**Jormungand** \- Iraq appears several times in the series.

* Lehm and Wilee both served in the Gulf War, working together on a mission to destroy a chemical plant in the north of the country. 
* After failing to kill Koko in Prague, Hex and the remains of her squad hide out in caves in northern Iraq.
* Koko visits the country to do humanitarian work, but is betrayed by the PMC she hired for security and ambushed near the city of Erbil.

***Red River*** *- Nakia, empress of the Hittite Empire and the primary villain, is a former princess of Babylon.*

**Zipang** \- While the executive officers of the Mirai were in officer school, the Gulf War broke out. Yasuyuki, who would become the ship’s weapon specialist, almost resigned out of concern that Japan might be drawn in.



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