Usage of the term hentai does not define a genre in Japan. Less official terms also in use include ero anime ( エロアニメ), ero manga ( エロ漫画), and the English initialism AV (for "adult video"). : 100 Japanese pornographic works are often simply tagged as 18-kin ( 18禁, "18-prohibited"), meaning "prohibited to those not yet 18 years old", and seijin manga ( 成人漫画, "adult manga"). : 99 While the term has expanded in use to cover a range of publications including homosexual publications, : 107 it remains primarily a heterosexual term, as terms indicating homosexuality entered Japan as foreign words. The character hen is catch-all for queerness as a peculiarity-it does not carry an explicit sexual reference. In sexual contexts, it carries additional meanings of " perversion" or "abnormality", especially when used as an adjective : 99 in these uses, it is the shortened form of the phrase hentai seiyoku ( 変態性欲) which means "sexual perversion". With Beast Boy being played by Asian actor Ryan Potter, him being bisexual would be welcome in more ways than one.Hentai is a kanji compound of 変 ( hen 'change' or 'weird') and 態 ( tai 'appearance' or 'condition'), and means "metamorphosis" or "transformation". The other DC shows all have at least one LGBT character, but they're all overwhelmingly white. His insecurities and desire to be loved are perfect for a character arc that follows him coming to terms with his sexuality. Gar is a great vehicle for that melodrama. With Greg Berlanti involved in the creation of the series, it's safe to say that emotional melodrama will be a big part of the show's proceedings. If the show's version of our green-skinned hero will be anything like the comics, he'll be insecure thanks to his appearance or his past. With Beast Boy as a main character in the upcoming Titans series, this is as good a time as any to officially make him bisexual. And the other Titans went out of their way to recreate their relationship, like something out of a romcom, because they ship those two so much. Not only does the episode involve a tiny creature that serves as a personification of their relationship, it had direct references to Top Gun (a film that is unashamedly queer) where they played volleyball with their shirts off and slapped each other's butts. More recently, there was an episode that devoted itself to celebrating their friendship as though it was an anniversary or birthday. "You think you're alone, Raven," he declares, "but you're not." His occasional dips into harmful masculinity aside, such as when chemicals drastically altered his personality into more of an alpha male type, he's a sensitive soul with love for everyone in his heart. You can see this most famously in the Teen Titans cartoon - his constant emotional appeals to Terra's humanity inspire her to turn on Slade, and Raven only really begins to open up emotionally because of him. With both women, he's wound up playing the role that women normally do in these stories: He's the one who has to appeal to their humanity while they're the ticking time bombs. Both Terra and Raven are proof of this, as they're the constant romantic interests each iteration of his character. Beast Boy is an incredibly romantic person at heart, someone who loves to love and yearns to be loved. It may seem incredibly random to say, but when you step back and think about Beast Boy across the various forms of media he's been in, it makes sense. RELATED: The Importance of Young Justice: Outsiders Adding LGBTQ+ Heroes