Why was he naked at the end?

He wasn't "naked" - he was in his most recognizable outfit, with the shorts and the red boots. That's the way he looked in the original Japanese manga. The film-makers wanted to pay tribute to that, I'm guessing.

And the space-octopus is kind of a homage to the manga as well - it was meant to illustrate Astro's destiny as a defender of humanity. I would have liked a better ending, but it was okay, and didn't detract from my enjoyment of the movie at all.

He wore clothes often in the original iteration and the 80's colour version as well. He just shucked them off before he went flying/into battle.

Not to mention, his red boots weren't originally his. They originally belonged to a girl robot that died when Astro tried to save her. He salvaged her legs and kept them for himself.

The way I saw it was his clothes were probably vaporized when he and the Peacekeeper exploded at the end. So yeah since the boots and briefs? are built into him... makes sense right?

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Firstly, not naked. How does someone not know what naked means? The mind boggles.

Secondly, his shirt was off in order to show the compartment in his chest. This showed him as a robot but also was, more importantly, required to suggest the imminent happy ending. The compartment in his chest was perhaps the single most important part of him and was required to be exposed in order for the end of the movie to work. How else could the blue force be inserted?

He had just been in the center of a blue core-red core detonation.

It's miraculous he was in one piece at all.

His clothes were burned off.