I was in Japan for the first time in Sept 2008 and Best Fiction promos were around the place. I knew OF Namie but wasn't really aware of her music, so I grabbed Best Fiction at a random CD shop in Osaka and was pleasantly surprised. I feel like it wasn't as easy to keep up with music releases back then so I'd never heard anything on BF (all I knew of her was Four Seasons from one of the Inuyasha movies) but it quickly became my favourite CD that year. And all those PVs on the DVD were gorgeous.
I'm still mad at her for retiring, not gonna lie....