Thanks to my dear pal Eleonora from The Ark - she gave me the heads up:

Diary 26, entry 2000.9.18 He says he had it done in the summer ^

yeah, he was sporting them when they did the REALIVE show that was filmed for the dvd, wasn't it in Osaka Zepp maybe..sometime in october, 2000? he went shirtless for about half of that show. there are screen caps of that floating around here and there.





not sure who to credit for that sc. but thanks to whoever it was. :)

i thought it was just to show off his wings and navel piercing. heheheh!