I've moved the "PokeFan stopped serializing PKSP" posts to this thread since it feels a bit weird to have both March and April plots on going at the same time.
Just thought I'd provide a bit more data for what has happened before when good old Grades 3, 4, 5, 6 are all still alive and well. Back then, the stories still had a ritual of 'graduating' into the next magazine, since the issues follow the school years with April being the 1st school month and thus issue, and therefore making the March issue of each year the 'last' issue in some sense. For instance, a plot that has been ongoing in Grade 4 will 'graduate' and continue in Grade 5 when the April issue hits, the same goes for Grade 3 to 4 and 5 to 6. Grade 6 usually carries closed then plots in the March issue. In order to start a 'new' plot in the Grade 4 April issue, the writers tend to begin the new plot in the March issue of Grade 3 each year, thus creating a similar 'graduation' transition in the following Grade 4 April issue. So for ever March issue, there can be up to 4 new chapters that month (a new Grade 3 plot, existing Grade 4 plot, existing Grade 5 plot, and an ending Grade 6 plot). This phenomenon has happened since the RGB days, and the writers have always been dealing with 1 single arc.
Sometime in the middle of RS, a parallel arc FRLG was started, but the 'graduation' and 4-March-chapters thing still went on. In fact, FRLG started in Grade 2, which graduated into Grade 3, and there were quite a few months that PKSP had 3 new RS + 1 new FRLG chapters running. Soon, Emerald came along, and this glorious 4-new-chapter thing only carried on for 2 more months, and then we had our familiar 1 arc per magazine run. When RS ended, DP took its place, and this 3-arc run went on for about 2 years, and then all 3 magazines were taken over by DP. Another year passed, and Platinum came along to replace 1 of the 3 magazines, leaving 2 new DP chapters per month. And then, another year later, Grades 5 and 6 were cancelled, which left us with Grade 4 alone.
At that juncture, Fan started to carry PKSP (its earlier issues didn't. Pokemon Wonderland did), and Ichiban also surfaced to start carrying the HGSS series. Grade 4 carried a few HGSS chapters and then all 3 magazines switched to BW, which created the mess with both Platinum and HGSS being heavily volume-only. BW still had a good run for about a year, with occasionally 3 new chapters per month when Fan was on, but alas Grade 4 was cancelled as well, and we went into our Ichiban/Fan situation, essentially leaving us with one single regular magazine and an irregularly scheduled one. And then we had our recent change.
So, it seems that pumping out more than 2 new chapters per month is not something new, but rather a tradition. Yet, we should note that the recent arcs have had longer chapters, and the writers couldn't 'cheat' us on new materials. By that, I refer to the occasional occurrence that the same month's Grade 4, 5, 6 may have some identical pages as they simply speak from different character's perspective. A good example is the 1st chapter of B2W2 Fan and Ichiban, where some pages actually duplicate during serialization and they are only combined in volume form.
The way I see it, I hope this means the writers can really regularly work on B2W2 as they claim. ORAS seems relative short per chapter if we compare it to the other recent arcs, but it's good that they started something than nothing. Here's hoping big time again that no new main games will be released in 2015. I do want the current 3 series to play out nicely.
Coronis~