The Isolator
Minoru Utsugi lived a nice ordinary life with his loving family, but that all changed the day they are tragically murdered in a home invasion. In the eight years since this terrible childhood tragedy, the now sixteen years old and living with his sister-in-law, Minoru longs to simply disappear not only from his own life, but from the memories of everyone else as well. What he longs for is nothing but the ultimate, perfect, absolute solitude.
That all changed when mysterious extraterrestrial life forms, called the Third Eye, come into contact with the human species granting the individuals strange powers. This incident grants his wish giving Minoru the power of Isolation—an unbreakable shield that surrounds his body.
But not all of these small alien orbs are as harmless as Minoru's. Some of these eyes known as Ruby Eyes are malicious and seek to case harm and others known as Jet Eyes seek out these murderous Rubies. And he soon finds himself trusts into a battle he never desired to fight. In this fight, he meets Yumiko Azu and learns of an organization of Jets that seek to stop the Ruby Eyes. As his old life comes to an end, he steps into a new role…as the Isolator!
From the pen of Reki Kawahara (the creator of Sword Art Online & Accel World), Zettai naru Isolator , released in English as The Isolator: Realization of Absolute Solitude or just The Isolator, is an ongoing 2014 Light Novel series published by ASCII Media Works with illustrations by Shimeji. The series was originally published on his website alongside Sword Art Online under the title Absolute Solitude in 2004 but left unfinished after his writing debut in 2009.
The novel series have been licensed by Yen Press for a Western release in 2015.
This series provides examples of:
- Personality Powers: Each of the power of the Third Eye grant their host seems to be debrived from the host's inner traumas.
- 20 Minutes into the Future: The series takes place in 2019
