(wonder if you bomb / death spammed Kikuri like just about everybody else)
I got lucky against Kikuri,
very lucky. Entered 2/2, thought the attempt was doomed. Then, one death and no bombs in the first phase because the ying-yang hit like it never hit before. I just spammed amulets and tried to not get in the way while occasionally bumping it in whatever direction I could when it started to bounce too low. Entered stage 16 0/2, I think.
Also, entered the last stage 4/2 but did everything wrong at the beginning and was down to 0/3 before getting rid of half her healthbar - blasted ying-yang must've passed above Konngara a million times.
A shame I wasn't recording, but I really thought the previous run was a major fluke. You'd see the most pathetic Jigoku stage 18 ever: tried to get the ying-yang to the left side, got annoyed after a while and bombed. Still some stuff on the screen, tried some more, got hit in the head by ying-yang. Not wanting to spend another bomb I kept trying to get the damned thing over there, got hit again. Bombed again because, really.... and a couple of &#?$& thingies
still stood there, I didn't even know you could bomb twice and fail to clear the screen. Had to endure some more torture before finally getting the ying-yang to the other side and beating the level.
tl;dr, I suck at HRtP despite evidence in contrary.