Interlink Co., Ltd., the registry operator for the “.moe” gTLD generic top-level domain is hosting an “Idoloid” contest for UTAU & Vocaloid voicebanks. With a grand prize of 200,000 JPY (approx $1,850 USD) and five runner up prizes of 10,000 JPY (approx $90 USD) the contest challenges users to create music for Moe-tan the domain registry’s mascot.

Interlink has provided three sets of pre-written lyrics for entrants to write their music around with Lyric A being titled “0.2mm no kyoukaisen”, Lyric B as “dot moe”, and the shortest Lyric C being “rairuto nijito moerusekai”. The full lyrics can be found in rōmaji here and in the original Japanese here.

The bottom of the lyric page also includes a prompt asking for “music to make the entire world dance to moe“. It also notes that the contest is “open to anyone regardless of age, sex, country of residence, professionals, amateurs”. The contest is set to run from October 1st to November 30th with the results being announced on December 5, 2014.

An important thing of note is that all entries must be made with either a Vocaloid, UTAU, or other similar synthesizer vocal.

For the full details, including contest terms & conditions and instructions on how to enter please visit the full contest page. You can find out more about Project Idoloid @ Idoloid.moe.