Rrgh, so close to a Phantasm clear now! I've managed to make it to Bounded Field "Boundary of Life and Death" for the first time tonight(Technically this morning. Hello, Touhou at 2 in the morning!)... Had I bombed earlier back in "Boundary of Humans and Youkai"(Or preferably captured it, but I'm thinking more realistically right now.), I might've had the bombs to survive... Then all that would remain would be Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Bounded Field", which is certainly easier than the spell before it.
Yukari, your time is nigh!
Though...I'd really like to know how come I managed to go from three spare lives at "Butterfly in the Zen Temple" to one by the end of Shikigami "Ran"... So troublesome, this Phantasm stage is...
Probably the most infuriating part is I know HOW to do it, I just wind up slipping up all over the place doing stupid stuff like running into bullets instead of dodging them. *twitch*