Left: gri light curves of SN 2018ijp, k-corrected apparent magnitudes versus rest frame days. Blue ticks at the bottom mark the epochs of spectroscopic observations. Right: bolometric light curve of SN 2018ijp estimated following the prescriptions of Lyman et al. (2014) (red points) and by fitting the SEDs obtained from the spectra (solid blue points). An estimate of the early peak obtained matching the luminosities obtained at ≃ + 34 d is also shown (open blue points). The inset shows the fit of the model of Arnett (1982) to the early luminosity evolution of SN 2018ijp, resulting in M_Ni ≃ 0.3 M_⊙ and τ_m ≃ 4.9 d, corresponding to E_k ≃ 3.3 × 10⁵¹ erg and M_ej ≃ 0.7 M_⊙.