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So I have been watching this Japanese TV Series called _**Mare**_ and I've
been wondering most of the time on their sentence structures. It's something
like this:

> しょうがないですね？ とるーさんは。

Can someone explain the structure above? ^~^
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A reverse sentence structure?
This is something that you will commonly find in colloquial spoken Japanese,
but it is rarely found in written Japanese. The major exception to this is, of
course, when an author is writing dialogue between two or more individuals.

Here's what's happening, the speaker says:

> しょうがないですね？

Then, realizing that the topic of the sentence is unclear, the speaker adds
on:

> とるーさんは。

This happens because Japanese is a highly contextual language, so if the
context is clear, the supporting details are frequently left off. In real time
conversation, the speaker occasionally assumes too much about the mutually
understood context, and adds it on after the fact in the manner you see here.

Sometimes you see this to add emphasis in spoken colloquial conversations, but
it is _highly_ unlikely (I'm willing to even say probability < 0.01%) that you
will find this method of emphasis in formal, written Japanese.
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