The linked reddit post says Agnes Digital.

Aura has been a really interesting case to observe. Reading the manga as it has come out, Aura was really just a minor character, never placing too highly in the popularity polls that they did prior to the anime’s release. It wasn’t really until the anime that her popularity took off. Her story was very faithfully adapted, so I don’t think there is much of a story difference that can be ascribed to causing the difference in reception.

I am guessing the root cause is some combination of a different audience as well as the effects of being a really fucking good adaptation. The Frieren adaptation has been stellar, and the conclusion of Aura’s fight is no different. In particular, I think the OST added a lot to the end of that episode, both in the lead up to Frieren’s command and the lack of OST immediately afterwards.

Meta comment:

In case you weren’t aware, there is a lemmyvision contest happening this year and I wanted to gauge interest among the community if it is something that they would be interested in participating in. It basically goes like this:

• Our community gets together and decides on an anisong from 2025 to nominate to the contest
• The wider threadiverse is then able to listen to all the songs submitted by the different communities and vote on their favorites

So, if we want to participate, we need to go through some kind of process to decide on a song from 2025 to submit. Here is my first thought about how to run this:

• If there is interest, I can make a thread later this week asking for submissions (one submission per top level comment)
• The community votes on the different submissions/comments for some time
• I then make a poll where the top vote-getters from the submission thread can be voted on by community members
• The winner of that poll is then put forward as our community’s submission

So, let me know if you want to throw our musical hat in the ring and start thinking about what songs from 2025 you would want to use as our submission.

Yeah…this was not a great adaptation if I am honest. The love meter gag, the whole point of the show, wasn’t even shown for some scenes (like when they are eating ice cream), and whole sequences from chapter 1 were cut. However, they made sure to insert an anime-original scene on the beach. I was really caught off guard when there was nudity in the show because it was not in the manga at all.

tl;dr - read the manga on this one. The art is better and the gags are funnier. Also, no forced fan service.