Mutsumi being my favourite char in the game made me find out some things that was not mentioned.

1. Her dark sphere atk can cause you to be brought directly into the chaos and thus get hit. To avoid this you can jump out of the atk but her clones will continue the atk without you. Effectively this is a safer form of the atk less one strike from you. You may follow up the atk from the jump when it gets closer to the ground so it’ll hit the ground enemies with your after image.

2.The dark ball can be summoned alone without the resumption of the atk. Simply tap once more after the initial strike and change directions quickly the dark ball will hit leaving the enemy open for any subsequent atks. This is particularly useful for 2p mode where the other player can cast a special in the midst of the atk. Extremely useful for irritating bosses like niwe.

Hope that helps ^^

Also another thing that i’ve discovered about Oboro (my favourite character in the game – requires most skill to play):

If u’ve charged up your special bar to 2/3 or more, you can initiate the special on the ground – many hits plus one small jump and one large jump. When Oboro is going through the large jump, press special again along with the direction that u want to go and he will do a super leap in the air that flies through about one screen before he lands and continues on with his mid-air special. Although maybe not of great use, makes him just this much more fun to play :P

Also, I believe that it is possible using him to keep attacking one target without the target having any chance to retaliate, although this doesn’t work on bosses – they have an immune phase where they summon creatures. The best creatures to try this on is those huge robots with tons of hp at the end.
Oboro’s full attacks are as follows (if you spam attack nonstop):

Three hits, followed by a small jump, followed by a small hit before a final leap into the air.

The key is to do the almost-full attack WITHOUT leaping into the air, but getting that small hit in before he leaps into the air. If u attack straight after this, u can start another chain of attacks without the monster having a chance to retaliate. This is extremely hard to maintain and requires a lot of practice, but it is a great way to maintain a flawless chain of attacks without generating an open gap between your attacks.

As I said before, I play this game too much -_-

Using Mutsumi, progress through the stage and just after u clear the bit where the screen says “many enemies approaching” and around where that row of fire-breathing statues is, go to the right side of the wall. Keep using Mutsumi’s full attack (where she charges forward) along the wall, facing right. If u stand in the right place, u’ll eventually go through the wall and find yourself in a secret passage where u can’t see your character. Follow the path back towards the entrance, attacking along the way, until u hear yourself attacking a box. Break this box, and you should see one of those dinosaurs that give out food when u hit it ^_^ After that, eventually u’ll come back out again

I suspect that there’s a similar secret passage in either stage B or C along the left side of the wall in the later half of the stage, but haven’t found anything yet. Also, I haven’t tried this with any other characters so I don’t know whether there is anyone else that can do this apart from Mutsumi.