I've decided I'm going to shy away from anything on UFO above normal until more people have beaten it and have good strategies.
With that, I've been making good use of my computer. In this playing session, I:
Beat IN stage 4a lunatic no deaths (not the first time, but still fun).
Died on the very last laser that could have killed me on SA stage 3. -_-
Captured Blazing Wheel and Uncontainable Nuclear Reaction without lag (I HATE Blazing Wheel and all other rhythm-based cards), also captured Peta Flare, yet somehow fucked up the Utsuho fight enough to clear with no lives left.
Accidentally timed out Small Demon's Revival no deaths or bombs. :V This spell card's not as bad as people make it out to be.
EDIT: YES! I just beat Syou on hard with only one death (second spell card walled me D:)! I also captured her first spell card for the first time! And later I captured Byakuren's fifth spell card! Still no luck with Kogasa's first or third on lunatic though... ;_; I swear, it wouldn't be so bad if you didn't have to go through the boring as hell stage portion to get to Kogasa.