I finished a run of IN extra yesterday 1/3.
ONE.
THREE.
Barely scored over a billion.
Just piss off Fujiyama.
Hey, I often waste all of my resources at the end if that makes you feel better. Fujiyama is worse than Mokou Rings of Death to me and I never capture Possessed by Phoenix either, not to mention most of her later non-spells.
Speaking of which: obligatory (MANDATORY!) IN Extra Stage practice (can't ever get enough of IN's Extra!). I am repeating the stage portion ad infinitum just to refine and perfect it. Mostly the death fairy, though.
EX-Keine is my bitch now and my history of her spell cards is as good as that of Wriggle's first spell card on Normal. Then, finally, enlightenment comes as I bash my head against the death fairy over and over again and I start seeing a path through the hail of danmaku. Some repeats afterwards, I can consistently navigate that path without fail.
=D
Then I decide to try Mokou for a good measure. I die to her opener. Too surprised to even deathbomb.
D=
I was trying hard, but the entire run was derpy like that. I think I've only managed to capture Phoenix's Tail (luck-based, mostly) and Flaw of the Forgiving Shrine (n/c) (also I don't do Xu Fu's Dimension the cheesy way, or Woo).
So yeah, that practice did not do me any good. Now I don't really wanna bore myself to death doing the stage portion just to get to Mokou and practice fighting her a little. And frankly, it's all about fighting Mokou, not some lame fairies or EX-Keine who can't even cave you (never understood that little meme either).
EDIT: I tried to make it a little more clear that the "enlightenment" part was about figuring out how to beat the death fairy by dodging her attacks.