/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>「一年ぶり、君は変わんないね」
>驚いた僕の顔を見て笑う
Supposedly "You haven't changed in a year", but why isn't it then 変わらなかったね or 変わってないね?
Is my understanding correct that it's more a general statement "you don't change in a year, do you"? not specific to the last year.