Yes, while Tsukasa has no particular reason to think Senku could revive himself, he might have done that out of simple guilt/regret. Just one of many reasons that specific plan was very shonen-idiotic. (Your tolerance for Dr Stone’s strange blend of oscillating rapidly between shonen-idiocy where everyone is holding idiot balls 24⁄7 in a world which makes zero sense, and Robinson Crusoe STEM nerd ratfic, will determine how much you enjoy it, I think.)
But even if Tsukasa accidentally deals with Senku in a definitive way, he still has the same basic issue: many people can defect and trigger a civilization-level reboot on their own, and he only has to screw up once. No matter how many ‘statues’ he destroys locally to prevent revival, and how carefully he selects who to revive, it just doesn’t work statistically. (Even handwaving away the wildly absurd worldbuilding which postulates that there can be at least 2 stable villages of hundreds or thousands of humans living at an advanced tech level for 3000+ years without anyone ever recolonizing the rest of the world.) His preferred plan leaves way too much ‘hardware overhang’; he needs a singleton, and it’s not obvious where he’d ever get that.
(And the worldbuilding further implies that Tsukasa’s plan is doomed because Senku is merely the first to wake up due to a double coincidence of location & his mental activity, and all the intact statues would revive eventually worldwide, and neither Tsukasa nor his successors could handle that.)
The US already have a bunch of revived people going, including a Senku-level rationalist and scientist who has discovered the revival fluid in parallel and is in fact much less inclined to be forgiving and wants the exact opposite of Tsukasa, to take advantage of the hard reset to build a full technocracy. By the time Senku & co arrive there, they already have automatic firearms and WW1-era planes. So essentially Tsukasa’s plan was always absolutely doomed. Just like it has happened before, one day backwards isolationist Japan would wake up to find US gunships with superior firepower at its gates and it would be able to do nothing at all to stop them.
Yes, while Tsukasa has no particular reason to think Senku could revive himself, he might have done that out of simple guilt/regret. Just one of many reasons that specific plan was very shonen-idiotic. (Your tolerance for Dr Stone’s strange blend of oscillating rapidly between shonen-idiocy where everyone is holding idiot balls 24⁄7 in a world which makes zero sense, and Robinson Crusoe STEM nerd ratfic, will determine how much you enjoy it, I think.)
But even if Tsukasa accidentally deals with Senku in a definitive way, he still has the same basic issue: many people can defect and trigger a civilization-level reboot on their own, and he only has to screw up once. No matter how many ‘statues’ he destroys locally to prevent revival, and how carefully he selects who to revive, it just doesn’t work statistically. (Even handwaving away the wildly absurd worldbuilding which postulates that there can be at least 2 stable villages of hundreds or thousands of humans living at an advanced tech level for 3000+ years without anyone ever recolonizing the rest of the world.) His preferred plan leaves way too much ‘hardware overhang’; he needs a singleton, and it’s not obvious where he’d ever get that.
(And the worldbuilding further implies that Tsukasa’s plan is doomed because Senku is merely the first to wake up due to a double coincidence of location & his mental activity, and all the intact statues would revive eventually worldwide, and neither Tsukasa nor his successors could handle that.)
Not just that, but as per manga spoilers:
The US already have a bunch of revived people going, including a Senku-level rationalist and scientist who has discovered the revival fluid in parallel and is in fact much less inclined to be forgiving and wants the exact opposite of Tsukasa, to take advantage of the hard reset to build a full technocracy. By the time Senku & co arrive there, they already have automatic firearms and WW1-era planes. So essentially Tsukasa’s plan was always absolutely doomed. Just like it has happened before, one day backwards isolationist Japan would wake up to find US gunships with superior firepower at its gates and it would be able to do nothing at all to stop them.