All kind of washed out

I’m pretty sure I may have reviewed a previous volume of this manga adaptation of an animated series elsewhere, but I don’t remember. So my bad if I’m repeating myself a whole bunch here. RWBY: The Official Manga vol. 3 is more of a retelling of the animated series than anything else. So these 4 main characters (Ruby, Weiss, Blake, Yang- odd how the color/name thing isn’t explained here, although it is in the animation) are all students at a school for Hunters/Huntresses, where the goal is to graduate to become a professional monster (Grimm) hunter and slayer, because these things of uncertain origins are a pretty constant threat to human civilization, on top of the usual social, political, etc. problems. The main 4 have been assigned to work as a team, and they’re out on a supervised mission with one of their instructors, Dr. Bartholomew Oobleck (yes, that name is indeed the salute you think it is). This is of course after the obligatory school dance episode, although the Jaune-Pyrrha bit is thankfully there, but nearly as funny as in the original.
So, I already know the story and the characters. That would have been vaguely irritating expect thanks to the art style, I don’t think I would have been able to really follow very well if I didn’t already know what was going on. Think watercolors but with black and white line drawings. The faces and bodies have very little detail to them so it’s hard to get much of an idea about how anyone is feeling at any given time. Also, given that this is an action-adventure series, when there’s a fight, it can be hard to tell what’s going on.
Another detail I’ve noticed is that nearly everyone has hair in their eyes at some point, obscuring part of their face. This can be useful to indicated the face/person might be hiding something emotion or information wise, but if it’s everyone in mostly random and varying circumstances, I have to wonder why do that? This isn’t necessarily a complaint, just that I don’t get it at all and I’m wondering if there is a point I’m not getting. It’s also not a gender specific thing, so again, am I missing something other than at least a few of these people should trim their bangs?
Lastly, the fuzziness of the art style means the monsters don’t have much detail of definition either, which is kind of a shame because the interesting monsters are a major feature of the story. This even applies to first bad guy Torchwick, who is spite of being human has very little personality here, which is disappointing because of how different that comes off again in comparison to the original telling.