For me, a deep story is one that has a profound emotional core and has profound themes. There's nothing in Pokemon - games and anime - that I'd consider to be deep, except for the main question in B/W about how right it is to use Pokemon for human needs (even then, it didn't explore that to its...
It's not a question of can/can't, but one of will/won't, I think.
The anime typically goes for simplicity, for better and worse. It doesn't want to ask questions that have complicated answers, perhaps because it simply doesn't want to commit the time to adequately exploring them. It's so busy...
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