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Intro

For this Hybrid Star Battle Series I will be sharing a new puzzle each week combining Star Battle with another puzzle genre. This week's genre is Tatamibari. This is my first time using the "small regions" variant of Star Battle, which is quite simple (1 star per region instead of 2). I think this works well for genres that typically have lots of small regions like Tatamibari, Fillomino, and even Sashigane (though I promise not to revisit that too soon).

Rules

Standard Tatamibari and Star Battle (small regions) rules apply.

• Tatamibari:
  • Divide the grid into rectangular regions of orthogonally connected cells, each containing exactly one clue.
  • Plus shaped clues occupy square regions.
  • Line shaped clues occupy regions in which the region borders parallel to the line are longer.
  • Question mark clues give no additional information about the region's shape.
  • Region borders may not form any four-way intersections.
• Starbattle (Small Regions): Shade cells such that each Tatamibari region contains exactly one shaded cell, and each row and column contains exactly 2 shaded cells. Shaded cells may not touch one another, not even diagonally.

Links

Solve on Penpa+

8x8 Example (Penpa+ link):