User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 374: Revolution, Review/@comment-24467372-20140307160834/@comment-7418318-20140307191402

Seeing him with or without the eyepatch really doesn't matter much in recognizing his face.

And I don't think Natsu ever saw Jose. By the time Jose turned up at the place where Natsu had fought Aria, Natsu was already battling Gajeel.

Any Happy certainly never saw Jose.