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 anyone has 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 couldn't find any real information as to why it was cut short but I assumed it was because of bad reception and the decreasing popularity of Bleach so it is a way of saving materials and time. Not to mention the fact that Bleach volumes got extended to 10 chapters per tankobon once the chapters were reduced in length (they usually had 9 chapters per volume with the occasional 10 if there was an extra special chapter or one to conclude an arc or something but it was almost always 9). 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 popularity.

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.

Ok I just checked and even Black Clover chapters have been cut by 2 pages.. smfh

Other manga from WSJ such as Promised Neverland, Dr Stone and We Can't Study all have 19 pages per chapter. Heck, even manga from other companies such as Seven Deadly Sins have the same amount of pages (19) per chapter.

Anyone know the actual reason why these manga chapters have been cut in length? Any thoughts on this would be helpful too. I would've thought that WSJ would release 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.

> Also, colour pages are extra so they don't count towards the actual page count in a chapter.

> One Piece has the usual cover page with a side story and, unlike a colour page, that page is included towards the actual page count.