Lucky Star and K-on for CGDCT
Evangelion for meta-commentary and deconstruction, to the point that future works that qualify often get called the “Evangelion of <genre>”
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood and Attack on Titan for battle shounen
Bocchi the Rock for girls band anime, specifically
Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro for pretty much all of Ghibli
Akira for 90s anime
As good as it is, I don’t see how Bocchi the Rock is a blueprint for girls band anime tbh. For one, it’s too recent to even tell and it’s not like there are newer girls band anime trying to follow Bocchi’s formula.
I also don’t think that it’s doing anything new to even function as a blueprint. K-On would be much closer.
Same for AoT.
Yeah, it’s good, but there are plenty of older ones: K-On!, Sound! Euphonium, Show By Rock!!, BanG Dream!, arguably Carole & Tuesday… (also quite a lot of others that came out around the same time; the genre seems to be in vogue this decade or so).
It’s an interesting and original take on the giant mecha genre, I’ll give it that, but I can’t think of anything that’s specifically riding on its coattails, no.