Usavich

is a series of animated short films created for MTV Japan by Satoshi Tomioka and his studio Kanaban Graphics from 2006 to 2015. It is about an odd pair of rabbits imprisoned in a Soviet prison in 1961. The first season shows the absurd everyday occurrences of the two rabbits' prison life, and the subsequent seasons show the two rabbits' life on the run from law enforcement. So far, 6 seasons and 78 episodes have been released.

==Setting== The episodes are quite musical. Almost every action has a sound associated with it and most episodes in the first season begin with a quiet jazzy beat accompanied by the rhythmic squeaking noises of Putin dancing Kozachok on his bed. Each season has at least one entire episode which consists of a sort of song, created by the sounds of characters and the environmental setting. Each episode usually ends with the punchline accompanied by the chorale Jesus bleibet meine Freude from J.S. Bach's cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. The animation style is a clean, rather sparse, linear style with broad swatches of color. There is, generally speaking, some incomprehensible whispering but usually no intelligible speech. Speech is heard in the second season, when some Russian phrases can be heard quite clearly, although they are few and far between. Everything is communicated through either incidental sound or by a character expressing emotions.