Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170331010234/@comment-734582-20170411163936

Dimension Creator wrote: A major thing in Naruto is how Naruto was treated badly because he had the fox sealed in him but we see very little of this in the series I think the problem with this is that it would be very hard to get right on TV. It would very easily make everyone look like absolute assholes, even though to the village itself this was a fairly reasonable things to do, considering that to them Naruto wasn't even a person but rather a demon incarnate that for some reason was allowed to live in the village, while nobody was allowed to talk about it, even though it attacked the village and murdered a bunch of people.

To get it right, you'd need to change the focus entirely, make the story about Naruto's daily life in konoha, adding a lot of interactions with other villagers.

The Manga does this mostly in the subtler way of showing people shunning Naruto in flashbacks, but not really treating it heavily, whereas the Anime has spent a lot of time debunking that this even happened.

Ancladar wrote: though I've got mixed feelings about it I think it's because the series never really focused on the villager's point of view. But if you consider your situation, it makes absolute sense that they hated what they thought was a demon incarnate. Especially since he's essentially a Kitsune, known for being master deceivers that could transform into anything.