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I'm always going to assume the big coastal cities just because lol. I think it's interesting you say that because your English text is good. Then again, I've been told the same before by another Filipino years ago, apparently written English is easier to understand than spoken English.

MAL as a whole needs to work better at expanding itself in meaningful ways, and disabling the API just because the EU was having a hissy fit is the wrong way to go about it. The challenge system, in the meantime, vary a lot year after year, but they've been trying to fill in holes the last couple of years because people would misread/misunderstand a challenge and having to redo it is a "pain", I suppose. The mods running the challenge always seemed to get pissy over having to tell users their entries are invalid because of such-and-such reasons.
Isekai is definitely an acquired taste, but only a few I would say count as good isekai. I will always point to Digimon and Vision of Escaflowne as excellent examples of a good isekai (although El Hazard was actually kinda fun for what it was), and something like Endride as an example of wasted potential.

Ah, you haven't seen any of the Ghibli films, yet? You can definitely kill two birds with one stone watching them for both the Ghibli films and Movie Per Day challenges. The Luster Challenge is also a good one if you like older anime/want to see more.

Real-life Japan is totally different from how anime portrays it, so if you were wanting to go to Japan based on what you saw in anime, you were going to be disappointed lol. If you figured you were going to be homesick, then you shouldn't ever force yourself to go unless you're willing to commit to it.
I'm American, so hearing English in thick accents is weird to me lol, but I'm quick to get used to it. Helps I live in an area where I've known all sorts of people from all over the place, so I've had my fair share of accents and I honestly wish I had an accent, but I don't xD.

Three episodes a day is good, actually. It's fairly moderate and it satiates your needs well. It's when you're watching more than six episodes a day that you may actually have an addiction or just waaaay too much free time lol.

I think the system needs work, especially since they had to do a work-around invalid entries, but even that work-around is actually pretty bad. This year's probably going to be a miss for me for that reason, and hopefully next year's system will be better. Not it's not actually a bad thing to be pushed outside of your comfort zone since it helps give you a varied list, and you never know if you'll like something if you don't try it, but it actually does start to get harder the more anime you watch. Some of the challenges are difficult for me now because I can't always find an anime that would fit that challenge description (usually due to unavailability), or it relies too heavily and unfairly on a flawed outside-system like MAL Graphs weighing your favorites/least favorites.

Which three challenges do you plan on doing? Some are genre-specific, for instance. If anything, one of them should definitely be the Movie Per Day Challenge, that's a lot of fun. Did it three times myself, making a total of 300 movies.

Oh cool! Man, you're pretty lucky that you have a large, varied selection of anime to watch, but then again, the Philippines and Japan are buddies, so it makes sense. It's actually nice that you have a steady market to choose from, meanwhile we only have like three, maybe four different companies handling anime and they all vary in quality, too.
The only Filipino dub I'm familiar with was Digimon, which was kinda hilarious to me but it was my first real exposure to the full script, so it's my soft spot.

School's a pain, but you need your education. Anime will always be there for when you need it, just don't force yourself to binge anything when you're getting too busy.

The tier system is interesting, but it limits your options until you complete the tier and be able to move up a level. Previous challenges were much more open because you could watch whatever you want and fit it wherever, but for the tier challenge, you can't do that (unless you watch an anime over 50 episodes), so you have to push yourself to watching anime you may not be invested in watching because you'd rather watch something else, but it goes with the challenge in a higher tier. It's honestly a motivation killer, and I haven't updated it since April, I believe.

Ah, MAL Badges, okay then. MAL Badges is a lot of fun, but because MAL's a piece of shit who hasn't done anything about the API since shutting it down last year, Badges will most likely shut down in September. So the Anime Watching Challenge club is your next best alternative for when Badges dies. MAL Graph is another good one, too, since it's basically the original MAL Badges.

Oh, how long ago was that? I keep forgetting Toradora is actually legally streamed, thought it was one of those that took a while to get licensed anywhere lol. But interesting first choices, more unique than my firsts of Pokémon, Digimon, and Cardcaptors lol. The Philippines still air anime, right? Or did they stop doing that some time ago?

It's never too late to start challenges, let alone watch anime from them. I take it that's how you found me, then, through the Anime Watching Challenge club? Those you totally can start at any time. MAL's challenge you can start throughout the year, though the tier system this year kinda killed my motivation. Doubt I'm gonna finish this year's challenge, but eh.

Yooo thanks for the friend request, but I have a personal policy to strike up conversations first before accepting requests. I can see you're new to MAL, so first off, welcome, it's a relatively chill place as long as you stay away from the forums. Second, what series awakened your inner weeb?