ESCHATOLOGICAL CHRISTIAN MOTIFS IN JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE MANGA BY KANTARO MIURA “BERSERK”

The article describes the most important feature of Japanese popular culture - adaptability to borrowings of other cultural traditions. Using the example of the iconic product of Japanese mass culture, the manga by Kantaro Miura “Berserk”, the mechanisms of borrowing and adapting Christian eschatological motifs in the space of Japanese mass culture are demonstrated. The images used by the author, their processing, addition and adaptation to the national peculiarities of Japanese culture are shown. The reasons why the author borrows these symbols and images to create a cultural product are also indicated. Due to their adaptability to borrowing foreign cultural images and plots, they are freely interpreted and integrated into the products of Japanese mass culture, which contributes to its subsequent enrichment and the introduction of new experiences and plots into the lives of Japanese people.