>>59013880Or just standard retcons for series that exist for over half a decade... like it's pretty obvious that starting in Journeys they wanted to make the anime world match the game world whenever there were parallels, so much so that they even introduced the Battle Frontier in Hoenn as an actual place as opposed to it being established that the Hoenn Battle Frontier facilities were all scattered across Kanto.
Of course there are exceptions primarily when it is an anime-specific location for the purpose of plot, but I mean Journeys alone went out of its way in some regard to not even bring back the Orange Islands, presumably because that creates conflict with the Sevii Islands, not to mention the fact that the Sevii Islands weren't referenced either.
