In these cases I recommend checking out Natively, it ranks books based on user feedback. The levels given roughly correspond to N levels like so: 1-12 → N5, 13-19 → N4, 20-26 → N3, 27-33 → N2, 34-40 → N1, 40+ → N1+
Akira is on there with a difficulty of level 32, so quite hard, about higher N2 level (though the N levels rarely actually mean something, paying attention to the natively levels is more worthwhile).
I personally wouldn’t recommend starting with it, because you will be hitting your head against a wall for quite a bit of time before making any considerable progress, which can be disheartening. But of course, if you are motivated enough, go ahead, worst case, you temporarily drop it, until you get better at Japanese.
Pretty recently there was a thread made that should be exactly what you are looking for, it summarizes the early steps when it comes to reading your first Japanese book:
Check it out