Managed to 1cc Lotus Land Story and Mystic Square on normal with Reimu. Both times I wasn't even being serious.
Though maybe it's because I'm actually somehow getting better but the normal modes in those two didn't feel that hard... although I barely made it through Mystic Square with 0 lives and 1 bomb left.
Well, that's because LLS normal is comparable to most easy modes.
Me? I just 1cc'd SWR normal with Youmu. I discovered that Youmu has her own spell card crusher: Her 22C. Leveled up enough, it can defeat most spell cards in 4 or 5 hits. This fact is balanced out by the fact that she fights Yukari. T_T She took two lives from me because I have no idea how to deal with Doppler Effect or Nest of Fireflies, leaving me with none going into Iku (Komachi managed to squeeze one from me as well). It's a good thing Iku isn't that tough (YET), but I was still expecting the worst with her infamous last spell card...then it turns out that Myooooooooon (what I'm calling 22C from now on) works wonders as long as those electrical bullets don't get in the way.
Then I entered Tenshi with no lives OR cards. D: As for how I didn't die once...I have no idea. The fact that Myoooooooon raped Scarlet Weather Rapture helped a bit though.
I dunno, I still don't feel accomplished...but that may be because SWR's endings all tell a (sort of) coherent story, so none of them give you a feeling of accomplishment most other endings would give you.