Today's genre is La Paz, a genre invented in 2022 by shye. This is the third genre in this series that has combined dynasty shading with a region constraint. I wonder how much more potential this combination has, given how uncommon it seems to be in general.
Rules: Shade some cells so that no two shaded cells are orthogonally adjacent and divide the remaining unshaded cells into two-cell regions. Clued cells cannot be shaded. A clue indicates the number of shaded cells which lie entirely within the same row or column as the region containing the clue.
For today's puzzles, I wanted to focus on smoothness of the solve, which ended up proving rather difficult. This first grid has a few more clues than I'd initially planned, but the puzzle mostly solves itself.
As for the second grid ... you may chuckle, but when was the last time I used this theme? It's been a while. I don't even have the "Square" tag anymore!
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