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English almost always drops the pronoun in the imperative, for example like Portuguese and the familiar form of you in German. English doesn't really ever drop the subject of the sentence otherwise...

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Sure, it does. If you're talking casually with friends, it's pretty common to drop the initial pronoun, especially when it's implied from context... which is exactly what happens in Japanese, except the context is larger.

"[You] Gonna eat that pizza?"

"[I'm] Gonna go to the store."

"Where's John?" / "[He's] Eating."

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