[mihaic]

The success of Squid Game I think is mostly that it somehow allowed western audiences to put on it the anticapitalist sentiment that is rightfully in the air. It often happens that there's some work that matches common sentiment well enough that it becomes a thing of itself, even if the author didn't intent it.

To me honestly it feels like a boilerplate manga/anime plot, but to a more untainted audience it can be more.