New Genre Puzzle Pack! (Puzzles #577 - #589)

One of the things I've been doing is accumulating potential rulesets for new genres to introduce. I'd been toying with a few different ways to potentially introduce these, anything from a contest to a book to just single puzzles. Ultimately, a combination of factors forced my hand on this one, so in the past couple days I made another half dozen instances to put together into a 13 puzzle pack. It's larger than an Inaba pack (4 puzzles + example) but not as large as a Palmer pack (30+ puzzles). I think any good genre introduction should really try to show the depth and breadth of that genre, and you really do need a variety of sizes and difficulties to do that. Even here, a lot of the easier puzzles were attempts at writing the example first!

Isowatari Puzzle Pack

Rules: Shade some cells such that all shaded groups are of the indicated size, all unshaded cells are orthogonally connected, and no 2x2 area is fully unshaded. Black circles must be shaded, while  white circles must remain unshaded.

(example puzzle)

Links are all in the PDF, but to get picked up by puzzlink and also duplicate the links here if the PDF link dies for some reason, here's direct links. I'm not uploading another 12 images right now, though.

Puzzle 1 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 1 (penpa)
Puzzle 2 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 2 (penpa)
Puzzle 3 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 3 (penpa)
Puzzle 4 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 4 (penpa)
Puzzle 5 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 5 (penpa)
Puzzle 6 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 6 (penpa)
Puzzle 7 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 7 (penpa)
Puzzle 8 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 8 (penpa)
Puzzle 9 (puzz.link)  Puzzle 9 (penpa)
Puzzle 10 (puzz.link) Puzzle 10 (penpa)
Puzzle 11 (puzz.link) Puzzle 11 (penpa)
Puzzle 12 (puzz.link) Puzzle 12 (penpa)
Puzzle 13 (puzz.link) Puzzle 13 (penpa)

I haven't forgotten about Puzzle Getchu! and the 34 new puzzles that brought (15 examples, 19 contest puzzles) and will be posting those soon, but almost definitely not until I get home from WPC. One week left!