User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 885: The Whipping Boy's Nut Job/@comment-31429799-20171114192740

Ok serious question here: I'm not sure if anyon ehas asked this before or even noticed but a normal WSJ chapter is 19 pages. Since Bleach entered its final arc, the chapters got reduced to 17 pages. I'm assuming I couldn't find any real information as to why but I assumed it was because of bad reception and the decreasing popularity of Bleach so it is a way of saving matriels and time plus Bleach volumes got extended to 10 chapters per tankobon once the chapters were reduced in length. More chapters per volume and less pages per chapter equals less volumes being produced so again, I'm assuming it was to save money, time, materials and production costs due to it's decreasing populatiry.

However, the same thing happened to One Piece somewhere during the Dressrosa Arc (I forgot what chapter exactly). But the One Piece chapters are now 2 pages shorter at 17 pages each. One Piece certainly isn't losing popularity so I'm guessing it's because of Oda requiring breaks all the time so less pages = less work load.

BUT, that is not all. I have also noticed that My Hero Academia chapters have also been reduced by 2 pages. I could be wrong but I certainly don't think it's losing popularity.

Anyone know why the actual reason these manga chapters have been cut in length? Any thoughts on this would be helpful too. I would've thought WSJ would realse some info for the readers to explain why at least..

Before anyone tells me that double pages are counted as 2 pages.. YES I know.