Great seeing Neo again. Not sure what's so dangerous about a giant crow to make it a King. With all the crazy stuff in Toriko, it's a monster crow that takes me out the series. Weird.
Yeah, this chapter came out of nowhere but I liked it. Maybe this is a volume ending chapter. Could've had a better transition, give us one page of Death Cooking downtime then go into it. It'll reserve full judgement until I see where next chapter takes place.
Maybe Shima or an editor was afraid of going several chapters without seeing the main cast and freaked out.