<p>The answer lies within the OVA's title, <em>Dead Girls</em>. The OVA is a homage to the 1992 debut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Girls" rel="nofollow">novel of the same name</a> by British science fiction author Richard Calder, which</p>

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  <p>tell[s] the tale of a virus that turns pubescent girls into vampiric gynoid dolls called Lilim, and the doomed love affair between 15-year-old Ignatz Zwakh and a Lilim assassin called Primavera.</p>
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<p>What's more, it appears that the TV series has also drawn inspiration from the <em>Dead Girls</em> novel, as the Animus-Doral feud and the conditions affecting members of the two warring clans match well with the rivalry between Cartier and Kito and the conditions affecting their dolls:</p>

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  <p>years ago during a trade war Cartier infected Kito's fake dolls with an impotence STD and in response Kito sent her own virus to infect the genuine Cartier dolls in Paris - a virus that Morgenstern thinks responsible for the doll plague.</p>
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<p>To answer my own question, Louise was probably born a human, but was turned into an android upon contracting a virus similar to that in the novel.</p>

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<p>In the OVA sequel, we are introduced to Louise who looks exactly like Lise in the <em>Red Garden</em> TV series. Lise is last seen dying the Animus death of turning into ashes on Roosevelt Island, so it is generally taken that Louise is a reincarnation of Lise. Later on, Louise revealed her identity as an android. (Gasp!)</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/FDy6q.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/FDy6q.jpg" alt="Louise the android"></a></p>

<p>How could Lise, a human girl turned Animus infected with the cursed Doral blood, reincarnate as an android? What happened during the 300-year time span between the end of the TV series and the beginning of the OVA to have caused this inconceivable transition in Lise's identity?</p>

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How is Louise what she is in the Red Garden OVA: Dead Girls?
# How is Louise what she is in the Red Garden OVA: Dead Girls?
Posted by: username_0 on 2015-12-27
In the OVA sequel, we are introduced to Louise who looks exactly like Lise in the *Red Garden* TV series. Lise is last seen dying the Animus death of turning into ashes on Roosevelt Island, so it is generally taken that Louise is a reincarnation of Lise. Later on, Louise revealed her identity as an android. (Gasp!)

[![Louise the android](https://i.sstatic.net/FDy6q.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/FDy6q.jpg)

How could Lise, a human girl turned Animus infected with the cursed Doral blood, reincarnate as an android? What happened during the 300-year time span between the end of the TV series and the beginning of the OVA to have caused this inconceivable transition in Lise's identity?
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### Answer by username_0 on 2016-01-23. Score: 0 | Accepted answer
The answer lies within the OVA's title, *Dead Girls*. The OVA is a homage to the 1992 debut [novel of the same name](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Girls) by British science fiction author Richard Calder, which

> tell[s] the tale of a virus that turns pubescent girls into vampiric gynoid dolls called Lilim, and the doomed love affair between 15-year-old Ignatz Zwakh and a Lilim assassin called Primavera.

What's more, it appears that the TV series has also drawn inspiration from the *Dead Girls* novel, as the Animus-Doral feud and the conditions affecting members of the two warring clans match well with the rivalry between Cartier and Kito and the conditions affecting their dolls:

> years ago during a trade war Cartier infected Kito's fake dolls with an impotence STD and in response Kito sent her own virus to infect the genuine Cartier dolls in Paris - a virus that Morgenstern thinks responsible for the doll plague.

To answer my own question, Louise was probably born a human, but was turned into an android upon contracting a virus similar to that in the novel.
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