Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-1872728-20160229033316/@comment-734582-20160306131421

Elveonora wrote: The Tailed Beasts were made circa 1000 years back. How probable is it that Kurama was roaming free for 900+ years and eating people and blowing villages up and no one gave a fuck? Hard to believe that Mito was the first Jinchuuriki if you think about it. You're off by about a thousand years.

As to being the first jinchuriki, remember that Gyuki was already so strong that the Hidden Mist could not maintain a jinchuriki for more than a few years. Kurama is even stronger. If it weren't for the Uzumaki and their seals and immense life force, Kurama would be destroying Konoha annually.

Jinchuriki simply never were a reliable means of maintaining even the weaker beasts, let alone the Biju that took on several others and won.