User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 46: October 2015/@comment-25111584-20151101081637/@comment-1776824-20151101093800

Ignoring the fact that I read this entire rant, Sane if it was obvious in the manga all along I wouldn't be mentioning it. I for one remember a lot of complaints about how it made no sense (dodgy translations for the win), and that Silver was "father of the year". And even in the manga itself, it isn't even obvious until the very end, because when Gray was using Iced Shell, it appeared that he was just fearing for his own life, but in the anime, they built onto that and the way they animated his face showed that he was concerned for Gray's life. So no, Hiro didn't make it clear. He made it seem like a last second piece of crap that the anime later rectified to the fullest.

Now about Jose, Sane, Keyes' greatest weapon isn't Silver. Keyes' greatest weapon is his body full of anti-magic particles that Jose has no known way of countering. I don't see how Jose can stomp all over Keyes when Keyes could not be hit by anything, and the only complete way to hurt or defeat him was to literally make him explode by forcing the his bodily volume to increase beyond its limit (which you can do with water; Jose's Shade crap and beams and blasts, yeah no). Jose can't even hit Keyes. Keyes' entire existence is completely anti-mage. He's literally Yuka on steroids. Plus, you know, his body is essentially poison, so all he has to do is get Jose to take in some of those particles and he's K.O.