User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 826: A Curly Colorful Clan/@comment-24850639-20160519130337/@comment-24850639-20160520011429

You're right Xil, and I never knew that about Oda. I always figured he wrote these on a weekly basis, since most of the hiatuses seem to coincide with either health issues, or a japanese holiday of some sort. Like the weeks we don't get chapters, I always thought it because something was preventing him from writing it that week, or he just wanted a breathure. I guess that's pretty naive in retrospect lol. He just tends to be so clever with his writing, as a reader I've gotten used to feeling like some of the hiatuses were intentional on HIS part. For example, Gear 4th and Jack's human form are a few post-hiatus chapters from recent memory where it just felt like, c'mon he's DEFINITELY trying to get us riled up for this! And the hype was most definitely worth it. This chapter just felt more like he was softening us up for something unexpectedly big in the near future, whereas after a break this long as a reader you're hoping for the knockout punch. But yeah, makes a lot of sense now when I consider he isn't necessarily in charge of the breaks. Respect.