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I was watching a dorama and I realized that in only one minute there was some
sentences in which there was a "western-sized" space in the beginning of the
sentences ( _by the way you can do that by pressing "shift + space" when using
the Japanese keyboard_ ). For example:

> 「一体 誰が招待状を送ったのか」  
>  「何 慌ててんのよ？」  
>  「いいかげん 服着てください」

After several times, I realized there wasn't a clear reason to do that. If the
reason were to make it clearer, the second and specially the third sentence
wouldn't fit this convention. **_Is there any reason or rule to do that?_** I
think I saw this pattern in mangas before. I like to understand the literary
way of writing.
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Placing a space after the first word of a sentence
Basically it's an equivalent of a comma (or sometimes a period). In situations
where periods and commas are not usually used (subtitles, manga, headlines,
...), spaces can be used instead. You would see spaces typically after だが, でも,
それにしても, etc. Sometimes, spaces may be inserted more frequently than commas to
increase readability. This is typically common in games and books for children
(example [1](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/23283/5010),
[2](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/27624/5010)).
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From [Netflix’s Japanese subtitles
guide](https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-
us/articles/215767517-Japanese-Timed-Text-Style-Guide) (likely a translation
of some Japanese guide):

> I.18. Punctuation
>
>   * Do not use (。) or (、) punctuation  
>  ◦ Instead of (、) – use half-width character space  
>  ◦ Instead of (。) – use full-width character space
>
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