Those who are sick and tired of the drab, plain black (or white) PSP cases can now breath a sigh of relief: Sony Computer Entertainment of Japan (SCEJ) has put out a line of funky pouches for the PSP Slim (or PSP-2000 if you're feeling more techie).

Sporting rather hip stripes, the new PSP Slim pouches come in four different colors: gray, blue, pink and lavender, for a price tag of ¥ 1,800 (around US$ 15) each. All these colors go well with the pastel PSP Slim palette available in Japan.

The pouches, unlike its rather boring predecessors, also have mini-compartments inside where you can slip your earphones and UMDs into. Certainly a nice change from the snug-fitting yet rather unwieldy old PSP cases back then.

It's just too bad that these pouches aren't included along with the units, not even in the entertainment packs. Of course, we can always hope that they'll be thrown into some other retail PSP Slim package in the future.