Yes. Let's put on our glorious genwon goggles and think that everything that it did was perfection. Besides the mentions of Team Rocket killing Pokemon, there was absolutely nothing deep about the dialogue. Let us not fool ourselves now.
Also I don't get what you mean about anime overtones. Many anime have amazingly complex story lines, maybe if you limit yourself to shitastic things like DBZ and the Pokemon anime that's how you would perceive it.