Anabelle

"Uh, no. Being stubborn is trendy right now, don't you get it?"

--Anabelle, New Horizons

Anabelle is a peppy anteater villager in the. She first appeared in and has appeared in all subsequent games. Her name and catchphrase are derived from her species, an anteater.

Appearance
Anabelle is an orange-yellow anteater with dark orange plates on her back and green eyes. Unlike other anteaters, her tail is flat rather than fluffy. This together with her scale-clad appearance makes her resemble a, a family of mammals also known as scaly anteaters for their keratine scales. She always looks colorful. The insides of her ears are purple and pink. Her hooves are also purple.

Personality
As a peppy villager, Anabelle will always appear to be in a good mood. She will get along with other villagers including the player, making it easy to befriend her and gain her picture in. She will enjoy the usual hobbies, and may ask the player for bugs or fish that she finds cute or has read about in Ms. Nintendique, an unseen magazine read by snooty and peppy villagers in. She will easily get upset, but due to a short attention span she will forget ever having the conversation. Like all peppy villagers, she dreams of becoming famous in the future. She will get on well with normal, lazy, and other peppy villagers, but may annoy snooty and cranky villagers with her upbeat personality.

In
In, Anabelle cannot be one of the starting villagers in the player's town.

In
In, Anabelle cannot be one of the starting villagers in the player's town.

In
In, if Anabelle is one of the villagers who moved in during the main storyline after the villager house development quest, her house will have a combination of non-craftable furniture, plus items crafted by players during the island development storyline, primarily from the Wooden Block Series. She cannot have her initial house interior unless she moves out of the player's island or the DLC is purchased, in which either the player or Isabelle can reset the interior.

In
Anabelle was added to on January 30, 2019.

Trivia

 * Carmen's profile on the official Japanese website indirectly compares her Japanese catchphrase, "seriously" (まじで, majide), with Anabelle's similar Japanese catchphrase, "seriously" (マジでー, maji dē).
 * "えっ？アタイと似た口癖を言う女の子がいるって？まじで！" Translation: "Huh? There's a girl who says a catchphrase similar to mine? Seriously!"