Naruto Shippuden is a continuation of the story of Naruto. The main character, Naruto Uzumaki, experiences great discrimination and “Othering”. He goes through this because he has a monster that is sealed within him that almost destroyed the village that is from. For this reason alone, he is constantly berated and treated as lower than everyone even though it was not his choice to have this beast sealed inside of him. His story relates to many of the themes that we have been introduced to this semester such as prejudice and injustice.
Although in Naruto Shippuden, Naruto does not deal with as much hate and outcasting because he gains more respect of the people as this story takes place a few years later when Naruto is a young adult and has accomplished some notable things. His closest friend, Sasuke, is someone who deals more with “Othering” and outcasting. Sasuke’s clan/family that he is from has been completely wiped out by his older brother and he is the last one left from his entire bloodline. This causes him to be on a quest to avenge his clan and try to become as strong as he can to defeat his older brother. This causes him to become a reject and an “Other” because he decides to leave with one of the main antagonists of the show to train with him. This is ironic because Sasuke was always the one everyone liked growing up because of his great intelligence and power from his bloodline and Naruto was the outcast/”Other” because of the beast that was sealed inside of him but as time goes in the roles become reversed. Naruto gets more and more loved by the village because of his growth and for him accomplishing some great feats while Sasuke decides to join the side of evil to become as strong as possible which causes him to now become the “Other”.