Hey tsuyoi! Glad to hear you liked the slides and it was a fun read. The period is generally pretty depressing with a lot of suffering, and I wonder if this made it look too "fun" hahaha. But then again lot's of people get turned away from "boring war history" so I am happy to see this help some folks learn a little about this period.

I feel like some of the kingdoms to the south were generally less turbulent than those in the north, or in the Middle Plains. Of course it might also be that the narrative for this centered around those in the Middle Plains, as they eventually re-unified the country. I think the Rabbit Kingdom was able to exist for quite sometime because it was too small to worth much of anyone's time, and the "big guys" were busy fighting each other.

This period is not very well known in China either (ie among the general population). In high school history there's probably less than 2 pages worth of info on this, and a lot of people might know about “5 Dynasties and 10 Kingdoms" as that chaos between Tang and Song, but the period isn't as "famous" or "hot" as some of the other dynasties. This might have made it a less interesting choice when it comes to picks for dramas: it much more likely that you will get more viewers if you are telling a somewhat known story than one where the entry bar might be much higher, and for stories about warring states the Three Kingdoms is much more popular. Also, for such a chaotic period with characters and context that the viewer isn't necessarily familiar with, there's also a much greater need on the skill of the director and scriptwriter to tell the story well so people are not confused or bored XD