>>29779682Like looker, she fell through a portal with amnesia, and now works for the International Police.
That's basically it, just a shoehorned way to bring her into the current canon timeline, because she technically shouldn't exist anymore due to no Frontier.
They did that, rather than just bringing in a more relevant character to Alola like Pheobe, or even just someone the fans were asking for, like some old Rivals or Gym Leaders.
It's such a weird choice and I can't say I am exactly happy about it. Anabel was an obscure character from a single game 10 years ago that got retconned out of existence, 99% of the S/M players wont even know who she is. I'm thinking of all the other characters that would have been a better choice, that people would actually have been happy to see...
I bet Anabel was chosen as compensation for the lack of Frontier in OR/AS. Game Freak are clueless, if anything this will only make people more frustrated.
