I am a man of my word, said I would report around halfway mark if it was even close to true
Yep it was bullshit, they even said so in ep 2 when Miorine (silver hair) stated she needed to be engaged to Suletta so she was neither a pawn to her father or the elite business heads. The series itself is good, art style is great, characters got depth (except the discrimination assholes) and it's all elites using their kids as pawns to gain more power, standard Gundam plot.
TLDR: The current Gundam not yuri bait, safe to watch. This season in general has been very solid.
Yeah but Prism Illya was the most popular Fate title unto FGO blew up and is still the most talked about and popular anime in the entire franchise.
Thing about Fate is that it was always a fan service erogame series.
Fate is one of those series I'll probably never watch as I can't understand a goddamn place to start watching it!
The original Stay Night anime is probably the one good starting place because it was created when it was a barely anything VN series, so it assumes you know literally nothing and goes from there.
Everything after, including the other Stay Night anime released a decade just assumes you'll figure it out. Though considering most people just jumped in at FGO, you could probably do that anyway.